CVE-2020-35499

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

Description

A NULL pointer dereference flaw in Linux kernel versions prior to 5.11 may be seen if sco_sock_getsockopt function in net/bluetooth/sco.c do not have a sanity check for a socket connection, when using BT_SNDMTU/BT_RCVMTU for SCO sockets. This could allow a local attacker with a special user privilege to crash the system (DOS) or leak kernel internal information.

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 5.10.4.arch1-1
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 5.10.4-1
sid Fixed 5.10.4-1
forky Fixed 5.10.4-1
bullseye Fixed 5.10.4-1
bookworm Fixed 5.10.4-1

References

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.