{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2020-11-25T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: child process is able to access parent mm through hfi dev file handle",
    "id" : "1901709",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1901709"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "6.4",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-416",
  "details" : [ "A use after free in the Linux kernel infiniband hfi1 driver in versions prior to 5.10-rc6 was found in the way user calls Ioctl after open dev file and fork. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system.", "A flaw use after free in the Linux kernel infiniband hfi1 driver was found in the way user calls Ioctl after open dev file and fork. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system." ],
  "statement" : "This flaw is rated as having a Moderate impact because the issue can only be triggered by an authorized local user with access to a system with specific hardware present.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2021-05-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2021:1739",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::nfv",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-305.rt7.72.el8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2021-05-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2021:1578",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-305.el8"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "kernel-alt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-27835\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27835" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2020-27835",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "To mitigate this issue, prevent the module hfi1 from being loaded. Please see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 for information on how to denylist a kernel module to prevent it from loading automatically.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}