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A flaw was found in the JFS filesystem code in the Linux Kernel which allows a local attacker with the ability to set extended attributes to panic the system, causing memory corruption or escalating privileges. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.
- Products
- linux
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 5.10.4-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-27815
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 13:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was found in the JFS filesystem code in the Linux Kernel which allows a local attacker with the ability to set extended attributes to panic the system, causing memory corruption or escalating privileges. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-27815
linux
Fixed versions: 5.10.4-1
linux
Fixed versions: 5.10.4-1
linux
Fixed versions: 5.10.4-1
Complete source record
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