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Tracker / CVE-2020-25641

CVE-2020-25641

Medium 5.5

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of biovecs in versions before 5.9-rc7. A zero-length biovec request issued by the block subsystem could cause the kernel to enter an infinite loop, causing a denial of service. This flaw allows a local attacker with basic privileges to issue requests to a block device, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 5.8.13
opensuse leap
redhat enterprise_linux

Analysis

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