CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-11668

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Apr 09, 2020 | Modified: Jun 10, 2020
CVSS 3.x
7.1
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

In the Linux kernel before 5.6.1, drivers/media/usb/gspca/xirlink_cit.c (aka the Xirlink camera USB driver) mishandles invalid descriptors, aka CID-a246b4d54770.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux * 5.6.1 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References