CVE-2020-12656 (GCVE-0-2020-12656)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-05-05 05:42
Modified
2024-08-04 12:04
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
gss_mech_free in net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_mech_switch.c in the rpcsec_gss_krb5 implementation in the Linux kernel through 5.6.10 lacks certain domain_release calls, leading to a memory leak. Note: This was disputed with the assertion that the issue does not grant any access not already available. It is a problem that on unloading a specific kernel module some memory is leaked, but loading kernel modules is a privileged operation. A user could also write a kernel module to consume any amount of memory they like and load that replicating the effect of this bug
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