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Tracker / CVE-2020-9391

CVE-2020-9391

Medium 5.5

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 5.4 and 5.5 through 5.5.6 on the AArch64 architecture. It ignores the top byte in the address passed to the brk system call, potentially moving the memory break downwards when the application expects it to move upwards, aka CID-dcde237319e6. This has been observed to cause heap corruption with the GNU C Library malloc implementation.

Affected products and versions

fedoraproject fedora
linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.5.6
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

Analysis

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