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
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