CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-29534

Published: Dec 03, 2020 | Modified: Jun 02, 2021
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.9.3. io_uring takes a non-refcounted reference to the files_struct of the process that submitted a request, causing execve() to incorrectly optimize unshare_fd(), aka CID-0f2122045b94.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 5.1 (including) 5.8.18 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 5.9.0 (including) 5.9.3 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 5.10-rc1 (including) 5.10-rc1 (including)

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