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Red Hat: CVE-2020-27835: CVE-2020-27835 kernel: child process is able to access parent mm through hfi dev file handle (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2020-27835: CVE-2020-27835 kernel: child process is able to access parent mm through hfi dev file handle (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
01/07/2021
Created
05/21/2021
Added
05/21/2021
Modified
03/13/2024

Description

A use after free in the Linux kernel infiniband hfi1 driver in versions prior to 5.10-rc6 was found in the way user calls Ioctl after open dev file and fork. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-kernel
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt

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