CVE-2020-27825 (GCVE-0-2020-27825)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-12-11 17:13
Modified
2024-08-04 16:25
Severity ?
CWE
Summary
A use-after-free flaw was found in kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c in Linux kernel (before 5.10-rc1). There was a race problem in trace_open and resize of cpu buffer running parallely on different cpus, may cause a denial of service problem (DOS). This flaw could even allow a local attacker with special user privilege to a kernel information leak threat.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a kernel Version: before kernel 5.10-rc1
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