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
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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