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CVE-2020-10742

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.0 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-06-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. An index buffer overflow during Direct IO write leading to the NFS client to crash. In some cases, a reach out of the index after one memory allocation by kmalloc will cause a kernel panic. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and system availability.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: all versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1835127
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1835127

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