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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2020-8991: lvm2 security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2020-8991: lvm2 security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/14/2020
Created
03/26/2020
Added
03/24/2020
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

vg_lookup in daemons/lvmetad/lvmetad-core.c in LVM2 2.02 mismanages memory, leading to an lvmetad memory leak, as demonstrated by running pvs. NOTE: RedHat disputes CVE-2020-8991 as not being a vulnerability since there’s no apparent route to either privilege escalation or to denial of service through the bug

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-lvm2
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-lvm2-libs
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-lvm2-python-libs

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