CVE-2020-27815

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

A flaw was found in the JFS filesystem code in the Linux Kernel which allows a local attacker with the ability to set extended attributes to panic the system, causing memory corruption or escalating privileges. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

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-2020-27815

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-27815.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed5.10.4.arch1-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed5.10.4-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.10.4-1
debian debianforkyfixed5.10.4-1
debian debiansidfixed5.10.4-1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.10.4-1

References

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