Security Advisory

CVE-2020-8991

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-02-14 04:27:16
Last updated 2024-08-04 10:19:20
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

vg_lookup in daemons/lvmetad/lvmetad-core.c in LVM2 2.02 mismanages memory, leading to an lvmetad memory leak, as demonstrated by running pvs. NOTE: RedHat disputes CVE-2020-8991 as not being a vulnerability since there’s no apparent route to either privilege escalation or to denial of service through the bug