CVE-2020-8991

vg_lookup in daemons/lvmetad/lvmetad-core.c in LVM2 2.02 mismanages memory, leading to an lvmetad memory leak, as demonstrated by running pvs. NOTE: RedHat disputes CVE-2020-8991 as not being a vulnerability since there’s no apparent route to either privilege escalation or to denial of service through the bug

Score

CVSS 3.1 2.3 Low

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2020-02-14

Last modified

2024-08-04

Weaknesses

CWE-401

Affected products

• Lvm2 (Redhat)

References

• https://sourceware.org/git/?p=lvm2.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=bcf9556b8fcd16ad8997f80cc92785f295c66701