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Vulnerability · Published Sep 13, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-25285

Medium 6.4

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the kernel-tools-libs-devel package (AlmaLinux). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 20% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)6.4Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 80.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A race condition between hugetlb sysctl handlers in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel before 5.8.8 could be used by local attackers to corrupt memory, cause a NULL pointer dereference, or possibly have unspecified other impact, aka CID-17743798d812.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8kernel-tools-libs-devel4.18.0-305.el8ALSA-2021:1578
Debian:12linux5.8.10-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25285
Debian:13linux5.8.10-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25285
Debian:14linux5.8.10-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25285
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-25285
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-25285
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-25285

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

References