CVE-2020-11935 (GCVE-0-2020-11935)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-04-07 00:00
Modified
2024-08-04 11:42
Severity ?
4.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-911 - Improper Update of Reference Count
Summary
It was discovered that aufs improperly managed inode reference counts in the vfsub_dentry_open() method. A local attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service attack.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Ubuntu Linux kernel (aufs filesystem module) Patch: 4.4.0-186.216   < 4.4*
Patch: 4.15.0-112.113   < 4.15*
Patch: 5.4.0-42.46   < 5.4*
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