CVE-2020-29368

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-29368
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-29368.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-29368
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2020-11-28T07:15:11.460Z
Modified
2026-04-11T12:34:27.769524Z
Severity
  • 7.0 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in _splithugepmd in mm/hugememory.c in the Linux kernel before 5.7.5. The copy-on-write implementation can grant unintended write access because of a race condition in a THP mapcount check, aka CID-c444eb564fb1.

Database specific
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "4.5.5"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "4.9.228"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "4.10"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "4.14.185"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "4.15"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "4.19.129"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "4.20"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "5.4.48"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "5.5"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "5.7.5"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "fixed": "5.7.5"
                }
            ],
            "source": "DESCRIPTION"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
c444eb564fb16645c172d550359cb3d75fe8a040
Database specific
{
    "source": "REFERENCES"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-29368.json"