CVE-2020-29374 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2020-29374?

CVE-2020-29374 is a low-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, 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 the Linux kernel before 5.7.3, related to mm/gup.c and mm/huge_memory.c. The get_user_pages (aka gup) implementation, when used for a copy-on-write page, does not properly consider the semantics of read operations and therefore can grant unintended write access, aka CID-17839856fd58.

Weakness: CWE-863, CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-29374?

It affects 8 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel, Netapp 500f Firmware, Netapp A250 Firmware, Netapp H410c Firmware, Netapp Hci Compute Node Bios and 2 more.

How do I fix CVE-2020-29374?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2020-29374 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-29374 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

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

Also known as A-174737879, ASB-A-174737879, DEBIAN-CVE-2020-29374, GHSA-7jw3-9qpg-fmp6, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-29374.