CVE-2020-29534 (GCVE-0-2020-29534)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-12-03 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 16:55
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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References
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