CVE-2020-10781
Severity
5.5MEDIUM
EPSS
0.1%
top 71.91%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 16
Latest updateMay 24
Description
A flaw was found in the Linux Kernel before 5.8-rc6 in the ZRAM kernel module, where a user with a local account and the ability to read the /sys/class/zram-control/hot_add file can create ZRAM device nodes in the /dev/ directory. This read allocates kernel memory and is not accounted for a user that triggers the creation of that ZRAM device. With this vulnerability, continually reading the device may consume a large amount of system memory and cause the Out-of-Memory (OOM) killer to activate an…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages3 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 9.0
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
3📋Vendor Advisories
5Microsoft▶
A flaw was found in the Linux Kernel before 5.8-rc6 in the ZRAM kernel module where a user with a local account and the ability to read the /sys/class/zram-control/hot_add file can create ZRAM device ↗2020-09-08
Debian▶
CVE-2020-10781: linux - A flaw was found in the Linux Kernel before 5.8-rc6 in the ZRAM kernel module, w...↗2020