CVE-2020-25704

Published: Dec 2, 2020

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

A flaw memory leak in the Linux kernel performance monitoring subsystem was found in the way if using PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_FILTER. A local user could use this flaw to starve the resources causing denial of service.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	kernel	affected `kernel 5.10-rc3`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-401

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895961

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/09/1

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7bdb157cdebbf95a1cd94ed2e01b338714075d00

[debian-lts-announce] 20201210 [SECURITY] [DLA 2483-1] linux-4.19 security update

mailing-list

[debian-lts-announce] 20201218 [SECURITY] [DLA 2494-1] linux security update

mailing-list

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/security/sw-20220802-0003/

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CVE-2020-25704

Description

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References