CVE-2020-29372

MediumCVSS 4.7/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in do_madvise in mm/madvise.c in the Linux kernel before 5.6.8. There is a race condition between coredump operations and the IORING_OP_MADVISE implementation, aka CID-bc0c4d1e176e.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 4.7/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-362

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162117/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0075-1.htmlThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2029Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.6.8Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bc0c4d1e176eeb614dc8734fc3ace34292771f11Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162117/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0075-1.htmlThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2029Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.6.8Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bc0c4d1e176eeb614dc8734fc3ace34292771f11Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://project-zero.issues.chromium.org/issues/42451131

Timeline

Published: Nov 28, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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