CVE-2020-8991

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-8991
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-8991.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-8991
Downstream
Published
2020-02-14T05:15:13.573Z
Modified
2026-03-14T10:36:09.099219Z
Severity
  • 2.3 (Low) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

vg_lookup in daemons/lvmetad/lvmetad-core.c in LVM2 2.02 mismanages memory, leading to an lvmetad memory leak, as demonstrated by running pvs. NOTE: RedHat disputes CVE-2020-8991 as not being a vulnerability since there’s no apparent route to either privilege escalation or to denial of service through the bug

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-8991.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "2.02.00"
            }
        ]
    }
]