CVE-2020-11669 Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004418
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Apr 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Apr 2020

CVE-2020-11669  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.2 or higher.

Overview

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.2 on the powerpc platform. arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_book3s.S does not have save/restore functionality for PNV_POWERSAVE_AMR, PNV_POWERSAVE_UAMOR, and PNV_POWERSAVE_AMOR, aka CID-53a712bae5dd.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1