CVSS 3.1
6.7 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-12659
Medium (6.7). EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 53% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-787
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
- netapp:active_iq_unified_manager
- netapp:aff_baseboard_management_controller
- netapp:cloud_backup
- netapp:hci_baseboard_management_controller
- netapp:solidfire_\&_hci_management_node
- netapp:solidfire_baseboard_management_controller
- netapp:steelstore_cloud_integrated_storage
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00022.html
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207225
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.6.7
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=99e3a236dd43d06c65af0a2ef9cb44306aef6e02
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/99e3a236dd43d06c65af0a2ef9cb44306aef6e02