CVEs-PoC/2020/CVE-2020-25704.md

### [CVE-2020-25704](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-25704)
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### Description

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.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7bdb157cdebbf95a1cd94ed2e01b338714075d00

#### Github
- https://github.com/JaskaranNarula/Host_Errata_Info
- https://github.com/Live-Hack-CVE/CVE-2020-25704