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CVE-2020-12656

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CVE-2020-12656

Published: May 5, 2020

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

gss_mech_free in net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_mech_switch.c in the rpcsec_gss_krb5 implementation in the Linux kernel through 5.6.10 lacks certain domain_release calls, leading to a memory leak. Note: This was disputed with the assertion that the issue does not grant any access not already available. It is a problem that on unloading a specific kernel module some memory is leaked, but loading kernel modules is a privileged operation. A user could also write a kernel module to consume any amount of memory they like and load that replicating the effect of this bug

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References

openSUSE-SU-2020:0801
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
openSUSE-SU-2020:0935
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
USN-4483-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
USN-4485-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU

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