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CVE-2020-36558

Date: July 20, 2022

A race condition in the Linux kernel before 5.5.7 involving VT_RESIZEX could lead to a NULL pointer dereference and general protection fault.

Severity Score

5.1

Related Resources (7)

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-36558

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2020-36558

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36558

Url: https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.5.7

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-36558

Url: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6cd1ed50efd88261298577cd92a14f2768eddeeb

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2020-36558

Severity Score

5.1

Weakness Type (CWE)

NULL Pointer Dereference

CWE-476

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

CWE-362

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.1
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

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