CVE-2020-29370 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2020-29370?

CVE-2020-29370 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 28 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 kmem_cache_alloc_bulk in mm/slub.c in the Linux kernel before 5.5.11. The slowpath lacks the required TID increment, aka CID-fd4d9c7d0c71.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-29370?

It affects 7 products.

Products include Linux kernel, Netapp Cloud Backup, Netapp H410c Firmware, Netapp Hci Compute Node Firmware, Netapp Solidfire\, Enterprise Sds \& Hci Storage Node, Netapp Solidfire \& Hci Management Node and 1 more.

How do I fix CVE-2020-29370?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2020-29370 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-29370 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

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Sources

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

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-29370, GHSA-3qvh-h66j-93ff, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-29370.