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.

Project Subscriptions

Vendors Products
Canonical Subscribe
Ubuntu Linux Subscribe
Debian Linux Subscribe
Fedoraproject Subscribe
Linux Kernel Subscribe
Active Iq Unified Manager Subscribe
Cloud Volumes Ontap Mediator Subscribe
E-series Santricity Os Controller Subscribe
H410c Firmware Subscribe
Hci Bootstrap Os Subscribe
Hci Management Node Subscribe
Solidfire Subscribe
Steelstore Cloud Integrated Storage Subscribe
Storagegrid Subscribe
Opensuse Subscribe
Sd-wan Edge Subscribe
Enterprise Linux Subscribe
Rhel Eus Subscribe
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2385-1 linux-4.19 security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2420-1 linux security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2420-2 linux regression update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-8132 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4525-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4526-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

No history.

Projects

Sign in to view the affected projects.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T13:37:53.889Z

Reserved: 2020-07-30T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-16166

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-07-30T21:15:11.533

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:06:53.577

Link: CVE-2020-16166

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2020-07-29T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-16166 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses