Use of Insufficiently Random Values Affecting kernel-default-base package, versions <5.3.18-24.12.1.9.4.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.28% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES152-KERNELDEFAULTBASE-2702844
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed3 Sept 2020

Introduced: 3 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-16166  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-330  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.2 kernel-default-base to version 5.3.18-24.12.1.9.4.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-default-base package and not the kernel-default-base package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.2 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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1