CVE-2020-9391

medium

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 5.4 and 5.5 through 5.5.6 on the AArch64 architecture. It ignores the top byte in the address passed to the brk system call, potentially moving the memory break downwards when the application expects it to move upwards, aka CID-dcde237319e6. This has been observed to cause heap corruption with the GNU C Library malloc implementation.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1797052

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=dcde237319e626d1ec3c9d8b7613032f0fd4663a

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O4LH35HOPBJIKYHYFXMBBM75DN75PZHZ/

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200313-0003/

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/25/6

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-02-25

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium