Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-8991 - Memory Leak vulnerability in Redhat Lvm2 2.02.00
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
HIGH Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
LOW Summary
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
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
| NASL family | Huawei Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | EULEROS_SA-2020-1311.NASL |
| description | According to the version of the lvm2 packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - 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.(CVE-2020-8991) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. |
| last seen | 2020-05-06 |
| modified | 2020-03-23 |
| plugin id | 134802 |
| published | 2020-03-23 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/134802 |
| title | EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : lvm2 (EulerOS-SA-2020-1311) |