Information Exposure Affecting python-perf package, versions *
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.43% (76th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-PYTHONPERF-2838020
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 29 Jul 2020
Introduced: 29 Jul 2020
CVE-2020-16166 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:7 python-perf.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-perf package and not the python-perf package as distributed by Centos.
See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
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
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200814-0004/
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16166
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AAPTLPAEKVAJYJ4LHN7VH4CN2W75R2YW/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MFBCLQWJI5I4G25TVJNLXLAXJ4MERQNW/
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.07432.pdf
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f227e3ec3b5cad859ad15666874405e8c1bbc1d4
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f227e3ec3b5cad859ad15666874405e8c1bbc1d4
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c51f8f88d705e06bd696d7510aff22b33eb8e638
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00025.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00032.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00034.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5473
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5506
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00009.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00047.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4525-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4526-1/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AAPTLPAEKVAJYJ4LHN7VH4CN2W75R2YW/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MFBCLQWJI5I4G25TVJNLXLAXJ4MERQNW/
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