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CVE-2020-29371 (GCVE-0-2020-29371)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-11-28 06:19 – Updated: 2024-08-04 16:48
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in romfs_dev_read in fs/romfs/storage.c in the Linux kernel before 5.8.4. Uninitialized memory leaks to userspace, aka CID-bcf85fcedfdd.
Severity
3.3 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
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