CVE-2020-16166

LOW

Linux kernel <5.7.11 - Info Disclosure

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (15)

Core 15
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00009.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00047.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4526-1/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4525-1/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00025.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00032.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00034.html
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200814-0004/
Technical Description, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.07432.pdf

Scores

CVSS v3 3.7
EPSS 0.0525
EPSS Percentile 91.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-330
Status published
Products (20)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 20.04
debian/debian_linux 9.0
fedoraproject/fedora 31
fedoraproject/fedora 32
linux/linux_kernel < 5.7.11
netapp/active_iq_unified_manager 9.5
netapp/cloud_volumes_ontap_mediator
... and 10 more
Published Jul 30, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026