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CVE-2020-9391
published 2020-02-25

CVE-2020-9391: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 5.4 and 5.5 through 5.5.6 on the AArch64 architecture. It ignores the top byte in the address passed to the brk…

PriorityP420medium5.5CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRLUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
0.50%
39.3th percentile
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 5.4 and 5.5 through 5.5.6 on the AArch64 architecture. It ignores the top byte in the address passed to the brk system call, potentially moving the memory break downwards when the application expects it to move upwards, aka CID-dcde237319e6. This has been observed to cause heap corruption with the GNU C Library malloc implementation.

Affected

8 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianlinux< linux 5.5.13-1 (bookworm)linux 5.5.13-1 (bookworm)
fedoraprojectfedora
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 5.5.13-15.5.13-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 5.5.13-15.5.13-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 5.5.13-15.5.13-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 5.5.13-15.5.13-1
linuxlinux_kernel5.5 – 5.5.6

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvdv2.02.1LOWAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
osv5.5MEDIUM
vendor_debian5.5MEDIUM
vendor_redhat5.5MEDIUM
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