Vulnerability CVE-2019-20934
Published: 2020-11-28

Description:
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.2.6. On NUMA systems, the Linux fair scheduler has a use-after-free in show_numa_stats() because NUMA fault statistics are inappropriately freed, aka CID-16d51a590a8c.

Type:

CWE-416

 (Use After Free)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
1.9/10
2.9/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Linux -> Linux kernel 

 References:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1913
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.2.6
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=16d51a590a8ce3befb1308e0e7ab77f3b661af33
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