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Vulnerability · Published Jul 30, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-16166

Low 3.7

In plain English

A low-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)3.7Low
Exploit odds (30 days)5.2%top 7.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

The Linux kernel through 5.7.11 allows remote attackers to make observations that help to obtain sensitive information about the internal state of the network RNG, aka CID-f227e3ec3b5c. This is related to drivers/char/random.c and kernel/time/timer.c.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux5.7.17-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-16166
Debian:13linux5.7.17-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-16166
Debian:14linux5.7.17-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-16166
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-16166
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-16166
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-16166

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

References