CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-0506

Improper Initialization

Published: Mar 12, 2020 | Modified: May 19, 2021
CVSS 3.x
2.3
LOW
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Improper initialization in Intel(R) Graphics Drivers before versions 15.40.44.5107, 15.45.29.5077, and 26.20.100.7000 may allow a privileged user to potentially enable a denial of service via local access.

Weakness

The product does not initialize or incorrectly initializes a resource, which might leave the resource in an unexpected state when it is accessed or used.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Graphics_driver Intel 15.45 *
Graphics_driver Intel 26.20 *
Graphics_driver Intel 15.40 *

Potential Mitigations

  • Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
  • For example, in Java, if the programmer does not explicitly initialize a variable, then the code could produce a compile-time error (if the variable is local) or automatically initialize the variable to the default value for the variable’s type. In Perl, if explicit initialization is not performed, then a default value of undef is assigned, which is interpreted as 0, false, or an equivalent value depending on the context in which the variable is accessed.

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