CVSS 3.1
7.0 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-29369
High (7.0). EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
An issue was discovered in mm/mmap.c in the Linux kernel before 5.7.11. There is a race condition between certain expand functions (expand_downwards and expand_upwards) and page-table free operations from an munmap call, aka CID-246c320a8cfe.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 39% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-362
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
- netapp:hci_compute_node
- netapp:hci_management_node
- netapp:hci_storage_node
- netapp:solidfire
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/10/6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/19/8
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2056
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.7.11
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=246c320a8cfe0b11d81a4af38fa9985ef0cc9a4c