CVE-2020-12659 Information

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.6.7. xdp_umem_reg in net/xdp/xdp_umem.c has an out-of-bounds write (by a user with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability) because of a lack of headroom validation.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00022.html https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207225 https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.6.7 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=99e3a236dd43d06c65af0a2ef9cb44306aef6e02 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/99e3a236dd43d06c65af0a2ef9cb44306aef6e02 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200608-0001/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4387-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4388-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4389-1/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction Required

HIGH

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.7