vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2020-11494: kernel: transmission of uninitialized data allows attackers to read sensitive information

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Apr 2, 2020
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in slc_bump in drivers/net/can/slcan.c in the Linux kernel 3.16 through 5.6.2. It allows attackers to read uninitialized can_frame data, potentially containing sensitive information from kernel stack memory, if the configuration lacks CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL, aka CID-b9258a2cece4.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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