cve/2020/CVE-2020-29368.md

### [CVE-2020-29368](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-29368)
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### Description

An issue was discovered in __split_huge_pmd in mm/huge_memory.c in the Linux kernel before 5.7.5. The copy-on-write implementation can grant unintended write access because of a race condition in a THP mapcount check, aka CID-c444eb564fb1.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.7.5
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.7.5
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c444eb564fb16645c172d550359cb3d75fe8a040
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c444eb564fb16645c172d550359cb3d75fe8a040

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon