CVE - CVE-2020-16166

CVE-ID
CVE-2020-16166	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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CONFIRM:https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200814-0004/ URL:https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200814-0004/ FEDORA:FEDORA-2020-2cd6393548 URL:https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AAPTLPAEKVAJYJ4LHN7VH4CN2W75R2YW/ FEDORA:FEDORA-2020-8d634e31c0 URL:https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MFBCLQWJI5I4G25TVJNLXLAXJ4MERQNW/ MISC:https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.07432.pdf URL:https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.07432.pdf MISC:https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f227e3ec3b5cad859ad15666874405e8c1bbc1d4 URL:https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f227e3ec3b5cad859ad15666874405e8c1bbc1d4 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c51f8f88d705e06bd696d7510aff22b33eb8e638 URL:https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c51f8f88d705e06bd696d7510aff22b33eb8e638 MISC:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f227e3ec3b5cad859ad15666874405e8c1bbc1d4 URL:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f227e3ec3b5cad859ad15666874405e8c1bbc1d4 MISC:https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html URL:https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html MLIST:[debian-lts-announce] 20200928 [SECURITY] [DLA 2385-1] linux-4.19 security update URL:https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00025.html MLIST:[debian-lts-announce] 20201030 [SECURITY] [DLA 2420-1] linux security update URL:https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00032.html MLIST:[debian-lts-announce] 20201031 [SECURITY] [DLA 2420-2] linux regression update URL:https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00034.html SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2020:1153 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00009.html SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2020:1236 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00047.html UBUNTU:USN-4525-1 URL:https://usn.ubuntu.com/4525-1/ UBUNTU:USN-4526-1 URL:https://usn.ubuntu.com/4526-1/
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Date Record Created
20200730	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
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