cve/2020/CVE-2020-25704.md

CVE-2020-25704

Description

A flaw memory leak in the Linux kernel performance monitoring subsystem was found in the way if using PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_FILTER. A local user could use this flaw to starve the resources causing denial of service.

POC

Reference

• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7bdb157cdebbf95a1cd94ed2e01b338714075d00
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7bdb157cdebbf95a1cd94ed2e01b338714075d00

Github

• https://github.com/JaskaranNarula/Host_Errata_Info
• https://github.com/Live-Hack-CVE/CVE-2020-25704