CVE-2020-25704

Name
CVE-2020-25704
Description
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.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895961
Mailing List https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/09/1
Patch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7bdb157cdebbf95a1cd94ed2e01b338714075d00
MLIST https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00015.html
MLIST https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00027.html

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* linux_kernel >= None <= 5.9
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.10:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* linux_kernel == None == 5.10

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status