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Tracker / CVE-2020-10942

CVE-2020-10942

Medium 5.3

In the Linux kernel before 5.5.8, get_raw_socket in drivers/vhost/net.c lacks validation of an sk_family field, which might allow attackers to trigger kernel stack corruption via crafted system calls.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 5.5.8
opensuse leap

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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