CVE-2020-29374

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.7.3, related to mm/gup.c and mm/hugememory.c. The getuserpages 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...

CVE-2020-29374: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.7.3, related to mm/gup.c and mm/hugememory.c. The getuserpages 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...