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HistoryMay 05, 2020 - 5:42 a.m.

CVE-2020-12656

2020-05-0505:42:21
mitre
github.com
12

AI Score

6.5

Confidence

Low

EPSS

0

Percentile

14.2%

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial

gss_mech_free in net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_mech_switch.c in the rpcsec_gss_krb5 implementation in the Linux kernel through 5.6.10 lacks certain domain_release calls, leading to a memory leak. Note: This was disputed with the assertion that the issue does not grant any access not already available. It is a problem that on unloading a specific kernel module some memory is leaked, but loading kernel modules is a privileged operation. A user could also write a kernel module to consume any amount of memory they like and load that replicating the effect of this bug

AI Score

6.5

Confidence

Low

EPSS

0

Percentile

14.2%

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial