CVE-2020-8428

fs/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 5.5 has a maycreatein_sticky use-after-free, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) or possibly obtain sensitive information from kernel memory, aka CID-d0cb50185ae9. One attack vector may be an open system call for a UNIX domain socket, if the socket is being moved to a new parent directory and its old parent directory is being removed.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

unresolved_ranges

[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "4.19"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "5.5"
            }
        ]
    }
]

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-8428.json"