CVE-2020-25211

Summary

CVECVE-2020-25211
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-09-09 16:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:20:00 UTC
DescriptionIn the Linux kernel through 5.8.7, local attackers able to inject conntrack netlink configuration could overflow a local buffer, causing crashes or triggering use of incorrect protocol numbers in ctnetlink_parse_tuple_filter in net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c, aka CID-1cc5ef91d2ff.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-120

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: kernel-5.8.9-101.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2420-2] linux regression update MLIST lists.debian.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4774-1 linux DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: kernel-5.8.9-200.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: kernel-5.8.9-101.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
grsecurity on Twitter: "Fixed in #grsecurity 6 months ago: https://t.co/TpQt2mMaY8… " MISC twitter.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 2417-1] linux-4.19 security update MLIST lists.debian.org Third Party Advisory
CVE-2020-25211 Linux Kernel Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com Third Party Advisory
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree MISC git.kernel.org Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: kernel-5.8.9-200.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2420-1] linux security update MLIST lists.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 239151 Red Hat Update for kernel (RHSA-2021:0856)
  • 239344 Red Hat Update for kernel (RHSA-2021:1531)
  • 239456 Red Hat Update for kernel-rt (RHSA-2021:0774)
  • 257070 CentOS Security Update for kernel (CESA-2021:0856)
  • 352339 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel-livepatch: ALAS2LIVEPATCH-2020-029
  • 352340 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel-livepatch: ALAS2LIVEPATCH-2020-028
  • 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
  • 353134 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-017
  • 377038 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX2-SA-2020:0198)
  • 610321 Google Pixel Android March 2021 Security Patch Missing
  • 6140026 AWS Bottlerocket Security Update for kernel (GHSA-x776-q533-gfwx)
  • 6140223 AWS Bottlerocket Security Update for kernel (GHSA-x776-q533-gfwx)
  • 750373 OpenSUSE Security Update for the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-SU-2021:0241-1)
  • 900076 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for kernel 5.4.91
  • 903611 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (2202)
  • 906162 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (2202-1)
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