CVE-2020-27835

2020-12-0919:44:51

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4.9 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

4.4 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

A flaw use after free in the Linux kernel infiniband hfi1 driver was found in the way user calls Ioctl after open dev file and fork. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system.

Mitigation

To mitigate this issue, prevent the module hfi1 from being loaded. Please see <https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278> for information on how to denylist a kernel module to prevent it from loading automatically.