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)
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11/28/2020
11/11/2021
11/10/2021
03/13/2024
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-kernel
- redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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