vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2020-25641: soft-lockups in iov_iter_copy_from_user_atomic() could result in DoS (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
2020-10-06
Added
2020-11-05
Modified
2024-03-13

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of biovecs in versions before 5.9-rc7. A zero-length biovec request issued by the block subsystem could cause the kernel to enter an infinite loop, causing a denial of service. This flaw allows a local attacker with basic privileges to issue requests to a block device, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Solution(s)

redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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