{
  "affected": [
    {
      "database_specific": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "events": [
              {
                "introduced": "0"
              },
              {
                "fixed": "5.6.8"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "events": [
              {
                "introduced": "0"
              },
              {
                "last_affected": "14.04"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "events": [
              {
                "introduced": "0"
              },
              {
                "last_affected": "16.04"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "events": [
              {
                "introduced": "0"
              },
              {
                "last_affected": "18.04"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "events": [
              {
                "introduced": "0"
              },
              {
                "last_affected": "20.04"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ],
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "CVE-2020-29372",
  "modified": "2026-03-15T13:49:46.325012591Z",
  "published": "2020-11-28T07:15:11.727Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162117/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0075-1.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.6.8"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2029"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bc0c4d1e176eeb614dc8734fc3ace34292771f11"
    }
  ],
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}