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Low severity3.6NVD Advisory· Published Nov 28, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-29374

CVE-2020-29374

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.7.3, related to mm/gup.c and mm/huge_memory.c. The get_user_pages (aka gup) implementation, when used for a copy-on-write page, does not properly consider the semantics of read operations and therefore can grant unintended write access, aka CID-17839856fd58.

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