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Tracker / CVE-2020-8992

CVE-2020-8992

Medium 5.5

ext4_protect_reserved_inode in fs/ext4/block_validity.c in the Linux kernel through 5.5.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (soft lockup) via a crafted journal size.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 5.5.3
netapp active_iq_unified_manager
netapp cloud_backup
netapp data_availability_services
netapp h410c_firmware
netapp hci_management_node
netapp solidfire
netapp steelstore_cloud_integrated_storage
opensuse leap

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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