CVE-2020-11494

MEDIUM

Opensuse Leap < 5.6.2 - Use of Uninitialized Resource

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in slc_bump in drivers/net/can/slcan.c in the Linux kernel 3.16 through 5.6.2. It allows attackers to read uninitialized can_frame data, potentially containing sensitive information from kernel stack memory, if the configuration lacks CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL, aka CID-b9258a2cece4.

References (13)

Scores

CVSS v3 4.4
EPSS 0.0008
EPSS Percentile 23.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-909 CWE-908
Status published
Products (8)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 19.10
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
linux/linux_kernel 3.16 - 5.6.2
opensuse/leap 15.1
Published Apr 02, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026