CVE-2020-16119

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.0

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel exploitable by a local attacker due to reuse of a DCCP socket with an attached dccps_hc_tx_ccid object as a listener after being released. Fixed in Ubuntu Linux kernel 5.4.0-51.56, 5.3.0-68.63, 4.15.0-121.123, 4.4.0-193.224, 3.13.0.182.191 and 3.2.0-149.196.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Affected
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Fixed 5.4.93-2
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 5.14.6-1
sid Fixed 5.14.6-1
forky Fixed 5.14.6-1
bullseye Fixed 5.10.46-5
bookworm Fixed 5.14.6-1

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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