CVE-2020-27835
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-01-07 17:24
Modified
2024-08-04 16:25
Severity ?
Summary
A use after free in the Linux kernel infiniband hfi1 driver in versions prior to 5.10-rc6 was found in the way user calls Ioctl after open dev file and fork. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1901709Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1901709Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
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