redhat enterprise-mrg CVE-2020-27825 vulnerability in Red Hat and Other Products
Published on December 11, 2020

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A use-after-free flaw was found in kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c in Linux kernel (before 5.10-rc1). There was a race problem in trace_open and resize of cpu buffer running parallely on different cpus, may cause a denial of service problem (DOS). This flaw could even allow a local attacker with special user privilege to a kernel information leak threat.

Vendor Advisory NVD

Weakness Type

What is a Race Condition Vulnerability?

The program contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently.

CVE-2020-27825 has been classified to as a Race Condition vulnerability or weakness.


Products Associated with CVE-2020-27825

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Red Hat Enterprise Mrg
 
Debian Linux
 
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
 
NetApp Cloud Backup
 

Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.14%
Percentile
33.53%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.