A flaw was found in the way RTAS handled memory accesses in userspace to kernel communication. On a locked down (usually due to Secure Boot) guest system running on top of PowerVM or KVM hypervisors (pseries platform) a root like local user could use this flaw to further increase their privileges to that of a running kernel.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2020-12-15T16:57:45
Updated: 2024-08-04T16:25:42.438Z
Reserved: 2020-10-27T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2020-27777
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2020-12-15T17:15:14.333
Modified: 2024-11-21T05:21:48.973
Link: CVE-2020-27777
Redhat