CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-16166
3.7 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-07-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 3.7 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-330
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 5.7.11)
• opensuse leap 15.1
• opensuse leap 15.2
• fedoraproject fedora 31
• fedoraproject fedora 32
• debian debian linux 9.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 20.04
• netapp active iq unified manager (>= 9.5)
• netapp cloud volumes ontap mediator
• netapp e-series santricity os controller (>= 11.0.0 <= 11.60.3)
• netapp hci bootstrap os
• netapp hci management node
• netapp solidfire
• netapp steelstore cloud integrated storage
• netapp storagegrid (<= 9.0.4)
• netapp h410c firmware
• oracle sd-wan edge 8.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-330 Use of Insufficiently Random Values weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00009.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00047.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.07432.pdf Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f227e3ec3b5cad859ad15666874405e8c1bbc1d4 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c51f8f88d705e06bd696d7510aff22b33eb8e638 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f227e3ec3b5cad859ad15666874405e8c1bbc1d4 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00025.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00032.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00034.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AAPTLPAEKVAJYJ4LHN7VH4CN2W75R2YW/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MFBCLQWJI5I4G25TVJNLXLAXJ4MERQNW/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200814-0004/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4525-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4526-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00009.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00047.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.07432.pdf Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f227e3ec3b5cad859ad15666874405e8c1bbc1d4 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c51f8f88d705e06bd696d7510aff22b33eb8e638 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f227e3ec3b5cad859ad15666874405e8c1bbc1d4 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00025.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00032.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00034.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AAPTLPAEKVAJYJ4LHN7VH4CN2W75R2YW/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MFBCLQWJI5I4G25TVJNLXLAXJ4MERQNW/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200814-0004/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4525-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4526-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html Patch, Third Party Advisory