vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2020-29374): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Nov 28, 2020
Added
Feb 26, 2021
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.7.3, related to mm/gup.c and mm/huge_memory.c. The get_user_pages (aka gup) implementation, when used for a copy-on-write page, does not properly consider the semantics of read operations and therefore can grant unintended write access, aka CID-17839856fd58.

Solutions

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