CVE-2020-25639

Se encontró un fallo de desreferencia del puntero NULL en la funcionalidad del controlador GPU Nouveau del kernel de Linux en versiones anteriores a 5.12-rc1, en la manera en que el usuario llama a ioctl DRM_IOCTL_NOUVEAU_CHANNEL_ALLOC. Este fallo permite que un usuario local bloquee el sistema

Ryota Shiga discovered that the eBPF implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly verify that a BPF program only reserved as much memory for a ring buffer as was allocated. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. Manfred Paul discovered that the eBPF implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly track bounds on bitwise operations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. Various other issues were also addressed.