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Vulnerability · Published Mar 24, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-10942

Medium 5.3

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the kernel-tools-libs-devel package (AlmaLinux). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.0% (higher than 63% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.0%top 37.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel before 5.5.8, get_raw_socket in drivers/vhost/net.c lacks validation of an sk_family field, which might allow attackers to trigger kernel stack corruption via crafted system calls.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8kernel-tools-libs-devel4.18.0-240.el8ALSA-2020:4431
Debian:12linux5.5.13-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10942
Debian:13linux5.5.13-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10942
Debian:14linux5.5.13-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-10942
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-10942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-10942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-10942

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

References