CVE-2020-8648

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 36
Modified
Published: 06 Feb 2020, 00:06
Last modified:04 Aug 2024, 10:03

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
38/100
CVSS Score
7.1 HIGH
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.03% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
1 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

06 Feb 2020, 00:06
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
04 Aug 2024, 10:03
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

There is a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel through 5.5.2 in the n_tty_receive_buf_common function in drivers/tty/n_tty.c.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
  • v2.0•LOW•Score: 3.6AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.03%• Percentile: 11%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-416•Use After Free

    The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Systems

  • broadcom•brocade_fabric_operating_system

    na

  • canonical•ubuntu_linux

    14.04 | 16.04 | 18.04

  • debian•debian_linux

    8.0

  • linux•linux_kernel

    ≤ 5.5.2

  • netapp•active_iq_unified_manager

    na

  • netapp•cloud_backup

    na

  • netapp•hci_baseboard_management_controller

    h410c

  • netapp•solidfire_baseboard_management_controller_firmware

    na

  • opensuse•leap

    15.1

References (11)