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Tracker / CVE-2020-12114

CVE-2020-12114

Medium 4.7

A pivot_root race condition in fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel 4.4.x before 4.4.221, 4.9.x before 4.9.221, 4.14.x before 4.14.178, 4.19.x before 4.19.119, and 5.x before 5.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) by corrupting a mountpoint reference counter.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 4.14 → 4.14.178
linux linux_kernel · 4.19 → 4.19.119
linux linux_kernel · 4.4.0 → 4.4.221
linux linux_kernel · 4.9.0 → 4.9.221
linux linux_kernel · 5.0 → 5.3

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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