msrc_cve-2020-11565
Vulnerability from csaf_microsoft
Published
2020-04-02 00:00
Modified
2020-08-18 00:00
Summary
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.6.2. mpol_parse_str in mm/mempolicy.c has a stack-based out-of-bounds write because an empty nodelist is mishandled during mount option parsing aka CID-aa9f7d5172fa. NOTE: Someone in the security community disagrees that this is a vulnerability because the issue “is a bug in parsing mount options which can only be specified by a privileged user so triggering the bug does not grant any powers not already held.”
Notes
Additional Resources
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