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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2020-12888: Kernel: vfio: access to disabled MMIO space of some devices may lead to DoS scenario

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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2020-12888: Kernel: vfio: access to disabled MMIO space of some devices may lead to DoS scenario

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
05/15/2020
Created
12/30/2020
Added
12/29/2020
Modified
05/10/2023

Description

The VFIO PCI driver in the Linux kernel through 5.6.13 mishandles attempts to access disabled memory space.

Solution(s)

  • linuxrpm-upgrade-redhat-coreos

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