CVE-2020-25285

MediumCVSS 6.4/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

A race condition between hugetlb sysctl handlers in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel before 5.8.8 could be used by local attackers to corrupt memory, cause a NULL pointer dereference, or possibly have unspecified other impact, aka CID-17743798d812.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 6.4/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-362 CWE-476 CWE-787

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Sep 13, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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