vulnerability

Alma Linux: CVE-2020-25212: Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-1578)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 9, 2020
Added
May 4, 2022
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

A TOCTOU mismatch in the NFS client code in the Linux kernel before 5.8.3 could be used by local attackers to corrupt memory or possibly have unspecified other impact because a size check is in fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c instead of fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c, aka CID-b4487b935452.

Solution

alma-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs-devel
Title
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