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CVE-2020-11565
published 2020-04-06

CVE-2020-11565: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.6.2. mpol_parse_str in mm/mempolicy.c has a stack-based out-of-bounds write because an empty nodelist is…

PriorityP426medium6CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRHUINSUCNIHAH
EPSS
0.52%
41.2th percentile
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.6.2. mpol_parse_str in mm/mempolicy.c has a stack-based out-of-bounds write because an empty nodelist is mishandled during mount option parsing, aka CID-aa9f7d5172fa. NOTE: Someone in the security community disagrees that this is a vulnerability because the issue “is a bug in parsing mount options which can only be specified by a privileged user, so triggering the bug does not grant any powers not already held.”

Affected

17 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
canonicalubuntu_linux
canonicalubuntu_linux
canonicalubuntu_linux
canonicalubuntu_linux
debianlinux< linux 5.5.17-1 (bookworm)linux 5.5.17-1 (bookworm)
linuxlinux_kernel<= 5.6.2
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 5.5.17-15.5.17-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 5.5.17-15.5.17-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 5.5.17-15.5.17-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 5.5.17-15.5.17-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 4.4.0-179.2094.4.0-179.209
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 4.15.0-101.1024.15.0-101.102
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 5.4.0-31.355.4.0-31.35
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 5.4.0-33.375.4.0-33.37
msrccbl_mariner_1.0_arm
msrccbl_mariner_1.0_x64
msrccm1_kernel_5.4.91-11_on_cbl_mariner_1.0

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.16.0MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
nvdv2.03.6LOWAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
osv7.8HIGH
vendor_ubuntu7.8HIGH
vendor_debian6.0MEDIUM
vendor_msrc6.0MEDIUM
vendor_redhat6.0MEDIUM
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