CVE-2020-12659 (GCVE-0-2020-12659)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-05-05 06:13 – Updated: 2024-08-04 12:04
VLAI
Summary
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
6.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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