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CVE-2020-25285 (GCVE-0-2020-25285)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-09-13 17:28 – Updated: 2024-08-04 15:33
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Summary
A race condition between hugetlb sysctl handlers in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel before 5.8.8 could be used by local attackers to corrupt memory, cause a NULL pointer dereference, or possibly have unspecified other impact, aka CID-17743798d812.
CWE
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      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2020-25285",
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      "version": "42"
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}



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