vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2020-12655: CVE-2020-12655 kernel: sync of excessive duration via an XFS v5 image with crafted metadata (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 5, 2020
Added
Sep 22, 2020
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in xfs_agf_verify in fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.c in the Linux kernel through 5.6.10. Attackers may trigger a sync of excessive duration via an XFS v5 image with crafted metadata, aka CID-d0c7feaf8767.

Solution(s)

no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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