CVE-2020-29372

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

An issue was discovered in do_madvise in mm/madvise.c in the Linux kernel before 5.6.8. There is a race condition between coredump operations and the IORING_OP_MADVISE implementation, aka CID-bc0c4d1e176e.

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-2020-29372

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-29372.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed5.6.14-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.6.14-1
debian debianforkyfixed5.6.14-1
debian debiansidfixed5.6.14-1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.6.14-1

References

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