Security Advisory

CVE-2020-29373

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-11-28 06:19:08
Last updated 2024-08-04 16:48:01
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

An issue was discovered in fs/io_uring.c in the Linux kernel before 5.6. It unsafely handles the root directory during path lookups, and thus a process inside a mount namespace can escape to unintended filesystem locations, aka CID-ff002b30181d.