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Vulnerability · Published Apr 7, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-11609

Medium 4.3

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the linux package (Debian). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 48% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)4.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 51.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

An issue was discovered in the stv06xx subsystem in the Linux kernel before 5.6.1. drivers/media/usb/gspca/stv06xx/stv06xx.c and drivers/media/usb/gspca/stv06xx/stv06xx_pb0100.c mishandle invalid descriptors, as demonstrated by a NULL pointer dereference, aka CID-485b06aadb93.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux5.5.17-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-11609
Debian:13linux5.5.17-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-11609
Debian:14linux5.5.17-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-11609
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-11609
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-11609
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-11609
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-11609

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

References