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prionPRIOn knowledge basePRION:CVE-2020-12656
HistoryMay 05, 2020 - 6:15 a.m.

Design/Logic Flaw

2020-05-0506:15:00
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5.1 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

14.3%

gss_mech_free in net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_mech_switch.c in the rpcsec_gss_krb5 implementation in the Linux kernel through 5.6.10 lacks certain domain_release calls, leading to a memory leak. Note: This was disputed with the assertion that the issue does not grant any access not already available. It is a problem that on unloading a specific kernel module some memory is leaked, but loading kernel modules is a privileged operation. A user could also write a kernel module to consume any amount of memory they like and load that replicating the effect of this bug

5.1 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

14.3%