CVE-2020-25645

Summary

CVECVE-2020-25645
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-10-13 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-03-26 02:25:00 UTC
DescriptionA flaw was found in the Linux kernel in versions before 5.9-rc7. Traffic between two Geneve endpoints may be unencrypted when IPsec is configured to encrypt traffic for the specific UDP port used by the GENEVE tunnel allowing anyone between the two endpoints to read the traffic unencrypted. The main threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-319

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 Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.9.0 - All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.9.0 rc1 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.9.0 rc2 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.9.0 rc3 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.9.0 rc4 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.9.0 rc5 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.9.0 rc6 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.9.0 - All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.9.0 rc1 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.9.0 rc2 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.9.0 rc3 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.9.0 rc4 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.9.0 rc5 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.9.0 rc6 All All
Hardware Netapp Hci Compute Node - All All All
Operating System Netapp Hci Compute Node Bios - All All All
Application Netapp Solidfire Hci Management Node - All All All
Application Netapp Solidfire Hci Storage Node - All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4774-1 linux DEBIAN www.debian.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1698-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2494-1] linux security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Kernel Live Patch Security Notice LSN-0074-1 ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 2417-1] linux-4.19 security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1682-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
CVE-2020-25645 Linux Kernel Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
1883988 – (CVE-2020-25645) CVE-2020-25645 kernel: Geneve/IPsec traffic may be unencrypted between two Geneve endpoints MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 174806 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 39 for SLE 12 SP2) (SUSE-SU-2021:0835-1)
  • 174874 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 38 for SLE 12 SP3) (SUSE-SU-2021:1074-1)
  • 198328 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities (USN-4912-1)
  • 239151 Red Hat Update for kernel (RHSA-2021:0856)
  • 257070 CentOS Security Update for kernel (CESA-2021:0856)
  • 377038 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX2-SA-2020:0198)
  • 750376 OpenSUSE Security Update for RT kernel (openSUSE-SU-2021:0242-1)
  • 750533 OpenSUSE Security Update for the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-SU-2020:2112-1)
  • 900076 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for kernel 5.4.91
  • 903192 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (3484)
  • 906177 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (3484-1)
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