CVE-2020-11565
Estado: ModificadaMedia (6)—
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.”
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- Puntuación base: 6
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.52%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 42
- Fecha de la puntuación: 7/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (2)
CWE
- CWE-787
Referencias
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=aa9f7d5172fac9bf1f09e678c35e287a40a7b7dd
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/aa9f7d5172fac9bf1f09e678c35e287a40a7b7dd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00011.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00012.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00013.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4363-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4364-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4367-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4368-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4369-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4667
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4698
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=aa9f7d5172fac9bf1f09e678c35e287a40a7b7dd
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/aa9f7d5172fac9bf1f09e678c35e287a40a7b7dd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00011.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00012.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00013.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4363-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4364-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4367-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4368-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4369-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4667
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4698
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