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CVE-2020-29370

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-11-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

An issue was discovered in kmem_cache_alloc_bulk in mm/slub.c in the Linux kernel before 5.5.11. The slowpath lacks the required TID increment, aka CID-fd4d9c7d0c71.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: before 5.5.11 — fixed in 5.5.11
• NetApp Cloud Backup: all versions
• NetApp H410C Firmware: all versions
• NetApp Hci Compute Node Firmware: all versions
• NetApp Solidfire, Enterprise Sds & Hci Storage Node: all versions
• NetApp Solidfire & Hci Management Node: all versions
• NetApp Solidfire Baseboard Management Controller Firmware: all versions

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 5.5.11. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2022
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.5.11
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fd4d9c7d0c71866ec0c2825189ebd2ce35bd95b8
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201218-0001/
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2022
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.5.11
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fd4d9c7d0c71866ec0c2825189ebd2ce35bd95b8
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201218-0001/

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