vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2020-29368: CVE-2020-29368 kernel: the copy-on-write implementation can grant unintended write access because of a race condition in a THP mapcount check (Multiple Advisories)
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
7 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | 2020-11-28 | 2021-11-10 | 2024-03-13 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
2020-11-28
Added
2021-11-10
Modified
2024-03-13
Description
An issue was discovered in __split_huge_pmd in mm/huge_memory.c in the Linux kernel before 5.7.5. The copy-on-write implementation can grant unintended write access because of a race condition in a THP mapcount check, aka CID-c444eb564fb1.
Solution(s)
redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt

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