CVE-2020-29374

NameCVE-2020-29374
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.7.3, related to mm/gup.c and mm/huge_memory.c. The get_user_pages (aka gup) implementation, when used for a copy-on-write page, does not properly consider the semantics of read operations and therefore can grant unintended write access, aka CID-17839856fd58.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-2689-1, DLA-2690-1, DLA-2941-1, DSA-5096-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
linux (PTS)buster4.19.249-2fixed
buster (security)4.19.304-1fixed
bullseye5.10.209-2fixed
bullseye (security)5.10.205-2fixed
bookworm6.1.76-1fixed
bookworm (security)6.1.69-1fixed
trixie6.6.15-2fixed
sid6.7.9-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
linuxsourcestretch4.9.272-1DLA-2689-1
linuxsourcebuster4.19.232-1DSA-5096-1
linuxsource(unstable)5.7.6-1
linux-4.19sourcestretch4.19.232-1~deb9u1DLA-2941-1

Notes

https://git.kernel.org/linus/17839856fd588f4ab6b789f482ed3ffd7c403e1f
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2045

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