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Incomplete Cleanup

CVE-2020-36322

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in the FUSE filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 5.10.6, aka CID-5d069dbe8aaf. fuse_do_getattr() calls make_bad_inode() in inappropriate situations, causing a system crash. NOTE: the original fix for this vulnerability was incomplete, and its incompleteness is tracked as CVE-2021-28950.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-459 - Incomplete Cleanup

The software does not properly "clean up" and remove temporary or supporting resources after they have been used.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published