CVE-2020-29374 (GCVE-0-2020-29374)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-11-28 06:18
Modified
2026-10-08 21:03
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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