Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.7.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.28% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005445
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed30 Jul 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Jul 2020

CVE-2020-16166  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.7.12 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. 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.

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