CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-10942
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-03-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
In the Linux kernel before 5.5.8, get_raw_socket in drivers/vhost/net.c lacks validation of an sk_family field, which might allow attackers to trigger kernel stack corruption via crafted system calls.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.5.8)
• opensuse leap 15.1
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 19.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00035.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/04/15/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.5.8 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/42d84c8490f9f0931786f1623191fcab397c3d64 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00011.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00012.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00013.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/2/15/125 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200403-0003/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4342-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4344-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4345-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4364-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4667 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4698 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00035.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/04/15/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.5.8 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/42d84c8490f9f0931786f1623191fcab397c3d64 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00011.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00012.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00013.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/2/15/125 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200403-0003/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4342-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4344-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4345-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4364-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4667 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4698 Third Party Advisory