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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published May 26, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-27815

CVE-2020-27815

Description

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.

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