CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-12653
High (7.8). EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
An issue was found in Linux kernel before 5.5.4. The mwifiex_cmd_append_vsie_tlv() function in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service because of an incorrect memcpy and buffer overflow, aka CID-b70261a288ea.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 39% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-787
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- linux:linux_kernel
- netapp:a700s_firmware
- netapp:active_iq_unified_manager
- netapp:cloud_backup
- netapp:element_software
- netapp:h300e_firmware
- netapp:h300s_firmware
- netapp:h410c_firmware
- netapp:h410s_firmware
- netapp:h500e_firmware
- netapp:h500s_firmware
- netapp:h610c_firmware
- netapp:h610s_firmware
- netapp:h615c_firmware
- netapp:h700e_firmware
- netapp:h700s_firmware
- netapp:hci_compute_node_firmware
- netapp:hci_management_node
- netapp:solidfire
- netapp:steelstore_cloud_integrated_storage
- opensuse:leap
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00022.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/05/08/2
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.5.4
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b70261a288ea4d2f4ac7cd04be08a9f0f2de4f4d
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b70261a288ea4d2f4ac7cd04be08a9f0f2de4f4d