CVE-2020-16166
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jul 30, 2020
- Updated
- Aug 4, 2024
- Reserved
- Jul 30, 2020
Description
The Linux kernel through 5.7.11 allows remote attackers to make observations that help to obtain sensitive information about the internal state of the network RNG, aka CID-f227e3ec3b5c. This is related to drivers/char/random.c and kernel/time/timer.c.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f227e3ec3b5cad859ad15666874405e8c1bbc1d4
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f227e3ec3b5cad859ad15666874405e8c1bbc1d4
- openSUSE-SU-2020:1153vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2020-8d634e31c0vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2020-2cd6393548vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2020:1236vendor-advisory
- USN-4526-1vendor-advisory
- USN-4525-1vendor-advisory
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200928 [SECURITY] [DLA 2385-1] linux-4.19 security updatemailing-list
- [debian-lts-announce] 20201030 [SECURITY] [DLA 2420-1] linux security updatemailing-list
- [debian-lts-announce] 20201031 [SECURITY] [DLA 2420-2] linux regression updatemailing-list
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200814-0004/
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c51f8f88d705e06bd696d7510aff22b33eb8e638
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.07432.pdf
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