CVE-2020-16166

low

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.

References

Advisories
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https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4526-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4525-1/

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200814-0004/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MFBCLQWJI5I4G25TVJNLXLAXJ4MERQNW/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AAPTLPAEKVAJYJ4LHN7VH4CN2W75R2YW/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00034.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00032.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00025.html

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f227e3ec3b5cad859ad15666874405e8c1bbc1d4

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.07432.pdf

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00047.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00009.html

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c51f8f88d705e06bd696d7510aff22b33eb8e638

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f227e3ec3b5cad859ad15666874405e8c1bbc1d4

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-07-30

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0121