CVE-2020-29370
kernel: Race condition in SLUB bulk alloc slowpath
Severity
UnknownRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · June 15, 2020
Updated · June 28, 2026
Description
A flaw memory corruption in the Linux kernel slub memory allocator subsystem was found in the way if race condition happens during memory allocation. A local user potentially could use this flaw to corrupt the memory with the double usage of the same memory object by different threads as result.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:N
CWE-362 · Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')