CVE-2020-16166
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2020-07-30 | |
| Impact: | None | What is this? |
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.
See more information about CVE-2020-16166 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v3 metrics
| Base Score: | 3.7 |
| Vector String: | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
| Version: | 3.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Network |
| Attack Complexity: | High |
| Privileges Required: | None |
| User Interaction: | None |
| Scope: | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Low |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | None |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2020-5962 | 2020-12-02 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2020-5844 | 2020-09-11 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2020-5845 | 2020-09-11 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2020-5848 | 2020-09-14 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2020-5885 | 2020-10-12 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2020-5962 | 2020-12-02 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel) | ELSA-2020-5473 | 2020-12-17 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2020-5848 | 2020-09-14 |
| Oracle VM version 3.4 (kernel-uek) | OVMSA-2020-0054 | 2020-12-02 |
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