CVE-2020-16166

Summary

CVECVE-2020-16166
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-07-30 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:18:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-330

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.04 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 31 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 31 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All
Application Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager All All All All
Application Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager All All All All
Application Netapp Cloud Volumes Ontap Mediator - All All All
Application Netapp Cloud Volumes Ontap Mediator - All All All
Application Netapp E-series Santricity Os Controller All All All All
Hardware Netapp H410c - All All All
Hardware Netapp H410c - All All All
Operating System Netapp H410c Firmware - All All All
Operating System Netapp H410c Firmware - All All All
Application Netapp Hci Bootstrap Os - All All All
Application Netapp Hci Bootstrap Os - All All All
Application Netapp Hci Management Node - All All All
Application Netapp Hci Management Node - All All All
Application Netapp Solidfire - All All All
Application Netapp Solidfire - All All All
Application Netapp Steelstore Cloud Integrated Storage - All All All
Application Netapp Steelstore Cloud Integrated Storage - All All All
Application Netapp Storagegrid All All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.2 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.2 All All All
Application Oracle Sd-wan Edge 8.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] [DLA 2420-2] linux regression update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree MISC git.kernel.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
USN-4526-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
CVE-2020-16166 Linux Kernel Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 2385-1] linux-4.19 security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
arxiv.org/pdf/2012.07432.pdf MISC arxiv.org Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
USN-4525-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: kernel-5.7.14-200.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: kernel-5.7.15-100.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree MISC git.kernel.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1236-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: kernel-5.7.15-100.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1153-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 2420-1] linux security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2021 MISC www.oracle.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: kernel-5.7.14-200.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
random32: update the net random state on interrupt and activity · torvalds/linux@f227e3e · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 353100 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAC2012-2021-024
  • 353101 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kmod-mlx5 : ALAC2012-2021-025
  • 353102 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kmod-sfc : ALAC2012-2021-026
  • 353137 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-014
  • 377038 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX2-SA-2020:0198)
  • 390237 Oracle Managed Virtualization (VM) Server for x86 Security Update for kernel (OVMSA-2020-0054)
  • 750376 OpenSUSE Security Update for RT kernel (openSUSE-SU-2021:0242-1)
  • 900076 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for kernel 5.4.91
  • 903475 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (1922)
  • 906133 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (1922-1)
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