VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2020-11565
CVSS score6 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.52%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-04-06
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Description
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.6.2. mpol_parse_str in mm/mempolicy.c has a stack-based out-of-bounds write because an empty nodelist is mishandled during mount option parsing, aka CID-aa9f7d5172fa. NOTE: Someone in the security community disagrees that this is a vulnerability because the issue “is a bug in parsing mount options which can only be specified by a privileged user, so triggering the bug does not grant any powers not already held.”
Weakness classification
- nvd@nist.gov: CWE-787
Primary references
- cve@mitre.org — Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Patch, Third Party Advisory
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- cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
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- cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
- cve@mitre.org