Description
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of Userspace core dumps. This flaw allows an attacker with a local account to crash a trivial program and exfiltrate private kernel data.
References (14)
Core 14
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00022.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00008.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4411-1/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4427-1/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4439-1/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4440-1/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4485-1/
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10732
Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=aca969cacf07f41070d788ce2b8ca71f09d5207d
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/google/kmsan/issues/76
Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ruscur/linux/commit/a95cdec9fa0c08e6eeb410d461c03af8fd1fef0a
Third Party Advisory
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAG_fn=VZZ7yUxtOGzuTLkr7wmfXWtKK9BHHYawj=rt9XWnCYvg%40mail.gmail.com/
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210129-0005/
Third Party Advisory
https://twitter.com/grsecurity/status/1252558055629299712
Scores
CVSS v3
3.3
EPSS
0.0004
EPSS Percentile
11.6%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-908
Status
published
Products (23)
canonical/ubuntu_linux
14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
20.04
linux/linux_kernel
< 3.16.85
netapp/active_iq_unified_manager
9.5
netapp/aff_8300_firmware
netapp/aff_8700_firmware
netapp/aff_a400_firmware
netapp/aff_a700_firmware
... and 13 more
Published
Jun 12, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026