CVE-2020-27675

low
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
2.5

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.9.1, as used with Xen through 4.14.x. drivers/xen/events/events_base.c allows event-channel removal during the event-handling loop (a race condition). This can cause a use-after-free or NULL pointer dereference, as demonstrated by a dom0 crash via events for an in-reconfiguration paravirtualized device, aka CID-073d0552ead5.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-27675

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-27675.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed5.9.2.arch1-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed5.9.6-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.9.6-1
debian debianforkyfixed5.9.6-1
debian debiansidfixed5.9.6-1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.9.6-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.