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CVE-2020-29369

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Date: November 28, 2020

An issue was discovered in mm/mmap.c in the Linux kernel before 5.7.11. There is a race condition between certain expand functions (expand_downwards and expand_upwards) and page-table free operations from an munmap call, aka CID-246c320a8cfe.

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https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=246c320a8cfe0b11d81a4af38fa9985ef0cc9a4c
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210115-0001/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/10/6
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.7.11
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2020-29369
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/19/8
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2056
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-29369
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-29369
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2020-29369

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Race Conditions

CWE-362

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): COMPLETE
Integrity (I): COMPLETE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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