ISOMAN

CVE

CVE-2020-16166

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.

Severity
LOW
CVSS
3.7
Published
Modified
NVD detailAll CVEs

Linked Releases

DistributionReleaseStatusEvidence
Ubuntu20.04.6 amd64 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu20.04.6 amd64 live-serverunknownsource
Ubuntu18.04.6 amd64 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu18.04.6 amd64 live-serverunknownsource
Ubuntu16.04.7 amd64 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu16.04.6 i386 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu16.04.7 amd64 serverunknownsource
Ubuntu16.04.6 i386 serverunknownsource

References

  1. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00009.html
  2. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00047.html
  3. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.07432.pdf
  4. https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f227e3ec3b5cad859ad15666874405e8c1bbc1d4
  5. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c51f8f88d705e06bd696d7510aff22b33eb8e638
  6. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f227e3ec3b5cad859ad15666874405e8c1bbc1d4
  7. https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00025.html
  8. https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00032.html
  9. https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00034.html
  10. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AAPTLPAEKVAJYJ4LHN7VH4CN2W75R2YW/
  11. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MFBCLQWJI5I4G25TVJNLXLAXJ4MERQNW/
  12. https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200814-0004/
  13. https://usn.ubuntu.com/4525-1/
  14. https://usn.ubuntu.com/4526-1/
  15. https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
  16. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00009.html
  17. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00047.html
  18. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.07432.pdf
  19. https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f227e3ec3b5cad859ad15666874405e8c1bbc1d4
  20. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c51f8f88d705e06bd696d7510aff22b33eb8e638