CVE-2020-27835 (GCVE-0-2020-27835)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-01-07 17:24 – Updated: 2024-08-04 16:25
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
A use after free in the Linux kernel infiniband hfi1 driver in versions prior to 5.10-rc6 was found in the way user calls Ioctl after open dev file and fork. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system.
Severity
4.4 (Medium)
CWE
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1901709 | x_refsource_MISC |
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