cve/2020/CVE-2020-16166.md

CVE-2020-16166

Description

The Linux kernel through 5.7.11 allows remote attackers to make observations that help to obtain sensitive information about the internal state of the network RNG, aka CID-f227e3ec3b5c. This is related to drivers/char/random.c and kernel/time/timer.c.

POC

Reference

• https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.07432.pdf
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c51f8f88d705e06bd696d7510aff22b33eb8e638
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4526-1/
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon