vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2020-29372): linux-oem-5.6 vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Nov 28, 2020 | Nov 19, 2024 | Apr 16, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Nov 28, 2020
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Apr 16, 2026
Description
An issue was discovered in do_madvise in mm/madvise.c in the Linux kernel before 5.6.8. There is a race condition between coredump operations and the IORING_OP_MADVISE implementation, aka CID-bc0c4d1e176e.
Solution
ubuntu-upgrade-linux-oem-5-6
References
- CVE-2020-29372
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2020-29372
- CWE-362
- EUVD-EUVD-2020-21745
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2029
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.6.8
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2020-21745
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/bc0c4d1e176eeb614dc8734fc3ace34292771f11
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bc0c4d1e176eeb614dc8734fc3ace34292771f11
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-29372
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