CVE-2020-11609

An issue was discovered in the stv06xx subsystem in the Linux kernel before 5.6.1. drivers/media/usb/gspca/stv06xx/stv06xx.c and drivers/media/usb/gspca/stv06xx/stv06xx_pb0100.c mishandle invalid descriptors, as demonstrated by a NULL pointer dereference, aka CID-485b06aadb93.

CVSS 3.1

4.3CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 47% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-476

Published

2020-04-07

Modified

2026-10-08

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• canonical:ubuntu_linux
• linux:linux_kernel

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00022.html
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.6.1
• https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=485b06aadb933190f4bc44e006076bc27a23f205
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/485b06aadb933190f4bc44e006076bc27a23f205
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00011.html

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