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CVE-2020-11494
medium
Description
An issue was discovered in slc_bump in drivers/net/can/slcan.c in the Linux kernel 3.16 through 5.6.2. It allows attackers to read uninitialized can_frame data, potentially containing sensitive information from kernel stack memory, if the configuration lacks CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL, aka CID-b9258a2cece4.
References
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4698
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4369-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4368-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4364-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4363-1/
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200430-0004/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00013.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00012.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00011.html
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b9258a2cece4ec1f020715fe3554bc2e360f6264
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159565/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0072-1.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00035.html