CVE-2020-27825

kernel: use-after-free in the ftrace ring buffer resizing logic due to a race condition

Published Dec 11, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 5.7 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
A use-after-free flaw was found in kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c in Linux kernel (before 5.10-rc1). There was a race problem in trace_open and resize of cpu buffer running parallely on different cpus, may cause a denial of service problem (DOS). This flaw could even allow a local attacker with special user privilege to a kernel information leak threat.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2557-1 linux-4.19 security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2586-1 linux security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4843-1 linux security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-20325 A use-after-free flaw was found in kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c in Linux kernel (before 5.10-rc1). There was a race problem in trace_open and resize of cpu buffer running parallely on different cpus, may cause a denial of service problem (DOS). This flaw could even allow a local attacker with special user privilege to a kernel information leak threat.
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