# CVE-2020-29372: An issue was discovered in do\_madvise in mm/madvise.c in the Linux kernel before 5.6.8.

- Severity: CVSS 4.7 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-11-28 · Updated: 2026-05-29

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in do_madvise in mm/madvise.c in the Linux kernel before 5.6.8. There is a race condition between coredump operations and the IORING_OP_MADVISE implementation, aka CID-bc0c4d1e176e.

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## References

- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.6.8
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bc0c4d1e176eeb614dc8734fc3ace34292771f11
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2029
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162117/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0075-1.html

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