CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2020-9391
Medium (5.5). EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 5.4 and 5.5 through 5.5.6 on the AArch64 architecture. It ignores the top byte in the address passed to the brk system call, potentially moving the memory break downwards when the application expects it to move upwards, aka CID-dcde237319e6. This has been observed to cause heap corruption with the GNU C Library malloc implementation.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 44% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-787
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- fedoraproject:fedora
- linux:linux_kernel
- netapp:active_iq_unified_manager
- netapp:cloud_backup
- netapp:data_availability_services
- netapp:h410c_firmware
- netapp:hci_management_node
- netapp:solidfire
- netapp:steelstore_cloud_integrated_storage
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/25/6
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1797052
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=dcde237319e626d1ec3c9d8b7613032f0fd4663a
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O4LH35HOPBJIKYHYFXMBBM75DN75PZHZ/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200313-0003/