vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2020-12659: linux -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
May 5, 2020
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.6.7. xdp_umem_reg in net/xdp/xdp_umem.c has an out-of-bounds write (by a user with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability) because of a lack of headroom validation.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
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