linux linux-kernel CVE-2020-29374 vulnerability in Linux and Other Products
Published on November 28, 2020

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An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.7.3, related to mm/gup.c and mm/huge_memory.c. The get_user_pages (aka gup) implementation, when used for a copy-on-write page, does not properly consider the semantics of read operations and therefore can grant unintended write access, aka CID-17839856fd58.

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Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.02%
Percentile
4.70%

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