CVE-2020-27152 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2020-27152?

CVE-2020-27152 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 6 Nov 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered in ioapic_lazy_update_eoi in arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.c in the Linux kernel before 5.9.2. It has an infinite loop related to improper interaction between a resampler and edge triggering, aka CID-77377064c3a9.

Weakness: CWE-835

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-27152?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2020-27152?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2020-27152 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-27152 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-27152, GHSA-pfwq-4xp5-gp3h, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-27152.