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Red Hat: CVE-2020-27825: kernel: use-after-free in the ftrace ring buffer resizing logic due to a race condition

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C)
Published
Dec 11, 2020
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

A use-after-free flaw was found in kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c in Linux kernel (before 5.10-rc1). There was a race problem in trace_open and resize of cpu buffer running parallely on different cpus, may cause a denial of service problem (DOS). This flaw could even allow a local attacker with special user privilege to a kernel information leak threat.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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