Race Condition Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [0,5.10-rc1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.28% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006686
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Dec 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-27825  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.10-rc1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition. 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.

CVSS Base Scores

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