CVSS 3.1
6.0 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HCVE-2020-10742
Medium (6.0). EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. An index buffer overflow during Direct IO write leading to the NFS client to crash. In some cases, a reach out of the index after one memory allocation by kmalloc will cause a kernel panic. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and system availability.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 18% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
- CWE
- CWE-787
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
- redhat:enterprise_linux