Security Advisory

CVE-2020-8428

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-01-28 23:43:41

Last updated 2024-08-04 09:56:28

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

fs/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 5.5 has a may_create_in_sticky use-after-free, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) or possibly obtain sensitive information from kernel memory, aka CID-d0cb50185ae9. One attack vector may be an open system call for a UNIX domain socket, if the socket is being moved to a new parent directory and its old parent directory is being removed.

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