CVE-2020-29374

LOW3.6EPSS 0.02%

linux - security update

Published: 11/28/2020Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

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.

Affected packages (3)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1LOW3.6CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

References (1)