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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2020-16166): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2020-16166): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
07/30/2020
Created
09/24/2020
Added
09/22/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

The Linux kernel through 5.7.11 allows remote attackers to make observations that help to obtain sensitive information about the internal state of the network RNG, aka CID-f227e3ec3b5c. This is related to drivers/char/random.c and kernel/time/timer.c.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1054-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1070-gke
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1071-raspi2
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1075-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1083-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1084-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1087-snapdragon
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1096-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1097-oem
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-118-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-118-generic-lpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-118-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-1019-raspi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-1024-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-1025-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-1025-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-1025-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-1026-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-48-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-48-generic-lpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-48-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-aws-hwe
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-aws-lts-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure-edge
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure-lts-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gcp-lts-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-hwe-16-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-hwe-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lpae-hwe-16-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lpae-hwe-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gke
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gke-4-15
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-hwe-16-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-hwe-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-osp1
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle-lts-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-raspi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-raspi-hwe-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-raspi2
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-snapdragon
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-snapdragon-hwe-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual-hwe-16-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual-hwe-18-04

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