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CVE-2020-29374

Public on 2020-11-28
Modified on 2021-05-24
Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel related to mm/gup.c and mm/huge_memory.c. The get_user_pages (aka gup) implementation, when used for a copy-on-write page, does not properly consider the semantics of read operations and therefore can grant unintended read access.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
3.6
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2021-05-20 21:12 ALAS-2021-1503
Amazon Linux 2 - Core kernel 2021-05-20 15:51 ALAS2-2021-1636

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 3.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 3.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 3.3 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N