CVE-2020-11668: Null Pointer Dereference
First published: Fri Jan 03 2020(Updated: )
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the Xirlink camera USB driver 'xirlink-cit' in the Linux kernel. The driver mishandles invalid descriptors leading to a denial-of-service (DoS). This could allow a local attacker with user privilege to crash the system or leak kernel internal information.
Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| redhat/kernel-rt | <0:3.10.0-1160.36.2.rt56.1179.el7 | 0:3.10.0-1160.36.2.rt56.1179.el7 |
| redhat/kernel | <0:3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7 | 0:3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7 |
| redhat/kernel-rt | <0:4.18.0-240.rt7.54.el8 | 0:4.18.0-240.rt7.54.el8 |
| redhat/kernel | <0:4.18.0-240.el8 | 0:4.18.0-240.el8 |
| Linux Linux kernel | <5.6.1 | |
| debian/linux | 5.10.223-1 5.10.226-1 6.1.115-1 6.1.119-1 6.11.10-1 6.12.5-1 |
Remedy
Mitigation for this issue is to skip loading the affected module 'xirlink-cit' onto the system till we have a fix available, this can be done by a blacklist mechanism, this will ensure the driver is not loaded at the boot time. ~~~ How do I blacklist a kernel module to prevent it from loading automatically? https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 ~~~
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Reference Links
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-11668 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11668
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1824792
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2726
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2725
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4609
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4431
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-11668
- 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=a246b4d547708f33ff4d4b9a7a5dbac741dc89d8
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a246b4d547708f33ff4d4b9a7a5dbac741dc89d8
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00011.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00012.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00013.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200430-0004/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4345-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4364-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4368-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4369-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4698
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2020-11668
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1824793
- https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/a246b4d547708f33ff4d4b9a7a5dbac741dc89d8
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-11668
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-11668
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11668
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-11668
Parent vulnerabilities
(Appears in the following advisories)
- collector/redhat-cve
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/type
- agent/first-publish-date
- collector/launchpad-cve
- source/Launchpad
- collector/redhat-bugzilla
- source/Red Hat
- alias/CVE-2020-11668
- agent/author
- agent/severity
- agent/weakness
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- agent/remedy
- agent/references
- agent/tags
- collector/usn-cve
- source/Ubuntu
- agent/description
- agent/event
- collector/nvd-cve
- source/NVD
- agent/software-canonical-lookup
- agent/last-modified-date
- collector/security-tracker-debian
- source/Debian
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/trending
- package-manager/redhat
- vendor/linux
- canonical/linux linux kernel
- package-manager/debian