cve/2020/CVE-2020-29369.md

### [CVE-2020-29369](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-29369)
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### Description

An issue was discovered in mm/mmap.c in the Linux kernel before 5.7.11. There is a race condition between certain expand functions (expand_downwards and expand_upwards) and page-table free operations from an munmap call, aka CID-246c320a8cfe.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.7.11
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.7.11
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=246c320a8cfe0b11d81a4af38fa9985ef0cc9a4c
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=246c320a8cfe0b11d81a4af38fa9985ef0cc9a4c

#### Github
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