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Tracker / CVE-2020-27777

CVE-2020-27777

Medium 6.7

A flaw was found in the way RTAS handled memory accesses in userspace to kernel communication. On a locked down (usually due to Secure Boot) guest system running on top of PowerVM or KVM hypervisors (pseries platform) a root like local user could use this flaw to further increase their privileges to that of a running kernel.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · … → 4.14.204
linux linux_kernel · 4.15 → 4.19.155
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.75
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.9.5
redhat enterprise_linux
redhat openshift_container_platform

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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