CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-10732

Use of Uninitialized Resource

Published: Jun 12, 2020 | Modified: Jun 06, 2023
CVSS 3.x
4.4
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
CVSS 2.x
3.6 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A flaw was found in the Linux kernels implementation of Userspace core dumps. This flaw allows an attacker with a local account to crash a trivial program and exfiltrate private kernel data.

Weakness

The product uses or accesses a resource that has not been initialized.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux * 3.16.85 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 4.4 (including) 4.4.226 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 4.9 (including) 4.9.226 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 4.14 (including) 4.14.183 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 4.19 (including) 4.19.126 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 5.4 (including) 5.4.44 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 5.6 (including) 5.6.16 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References