{"id":"CVE-2020-25704","details":"A flaw memory leak in the Linux kernel performance monitoring subsystem was found in the way if using PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_FILTER. A local user could use this flaw to starve the resources causing denial of service.","modified":"2026-03-15T22:35:08.575671Z","published":"2020-12-02T01:15:12.670Z","related":["ALSA-2021:1578","MGASA-2021-0030","MGASA-2021-0031","SUSE-SU-2020:3484-1","SUSE-SU-2020:3507-1","SUSE-SU-2020:3512-1","SUSE-SU-2020:3513-1","SUSE-SU-2020:3522-1","SUSE-SU-2020:3532-1","SUSE-SU-2020:3544-1","SUSE-SU-2020:3713-1","SUSE-SU-2020:3715-1","SUSE-SU-2020:3717-1","SUSE-SU-2020:3748-1","openSUSE-SU-2020:1906-1","openSUSE-SU-2020:2034-1","openSUSE-SU-2020:2112-1","openSUSE-SU-2020:2260-1","openSUSE-SU-2021:0242-1"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00015.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00027.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.starwindsoftware.com/security/sw-20220802-0003/"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895961"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7bdb157cdebbf95a1cd94ed2e01b338714075d00"},{"type":"ARTICLE","url":"https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/09/1"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"5.9"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"5.10-rc1"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"5.10-rc2"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"9.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"v8r12"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"v8-build14398"}]}],"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-25704.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}