CVE-2020-25704

EPSS 0.3%CWE-401

Vexday Risk Score

3Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS —EPSS 0.3%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

02 Dec 2020Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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.

Affected products

n/a · kernel

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References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895961 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7bdb157cdebbf95a1cd94ed2e01b338714075d00 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00015.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00027.html https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/09/1 https://www.starwindsoftware.com/security/sw-20220802-0003/