Vulnerability · Published May 18, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-13143

Medium 6.5

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 5.2% (higher than 93% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)5.2%top 7.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

gadget_dev_desc_UDC_store in drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c in the Linux kernel 3.16 through 5.6.13 relies on kstrdup without considering the possibility of an internal '\0' value, which allows attackers to trigger an out-of-bounds read, aka CID-15753588bcd4.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux5.6.14-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-13143
Debian:13linux5.6.14-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-13143
Debian:14linux5.6.14-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-13143
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-13143
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-13143
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-13143
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-13143

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

References