CVE-2020-10711 Information

Description

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s SELinux subsystem in versions before 5.7. This flaw occurs while importing the Commercial IP Security Option (CIPSO) protocol’s category bitmap into the SELinux extensible bitmap via the’ ebitmap_netlbl_import’ routine. While processing the CIPSO restricted bitmap tag in the ‘cipso_v4_parsetag_rbm’ routine it sets the security attribute to indicate that the category bitmap is present even if it has not been allocated. This issue leads to a NULL pointer dereference issue while importing the same category bitmap into SELinux. This flaw allows a remote network user to crash the system kernel resulting in a denial of service.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00022.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00008.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10711 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00012.html https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200608-0001/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4411-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4412-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4413-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4414-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4419-1/ https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4698 https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4699 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/05/12/2

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.9