CVE-2020-12659
Moderate
CVE-2020-12659
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.
Exploit probability
0.7%
Published
May 5, 2020
Required by
Not available
Last source change
April 16, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2020-12659
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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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- 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
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200608-0001/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4387-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4388-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4389-1/