MEDIUM 6.4 Microsoft

CVE-2020-25285

A race condition between hugetlb sysctl handlers in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel before 5.8.8 could be used by local attackers to corrupt memory cause a NULL pointer dereference or possibly have unspecified other impact aka CID-17743798d812.

Microsoft Security Update 2020-Sep: A race condition between hugetlb sysctl handlers in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel before 5.8.8 could be used by local attackers to corrupt memory cause a NULL pointer dereference or possibly have unspecified other impact aka CID-17743798d812.

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Published: 2020-09-08 · Source: Microsoft · Feed updated: 2026-08-21
This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.4 was published on 2020-09-08 via Microsoft. Affected: cm1 kernel 5.4.91-3 on CBL Mariner 1.0.
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