# CVE-2020-16166: The Linux kernel through 5.7.11 allows remote attackers to make observations that help to obtain sensitive information about the internal st

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-07-30 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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.

## What to do

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## References

- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f227e3ec3b5cad859ad15666874405e8c1bbc1d4
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f227e3ec3b5cad859ad15666874405e8c1bbc1d4
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00009.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MFBCLQWJI5I4G25TVJNLXLAXJ4MERQNW/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AAPTLPAEKVAJYJ4LHN7VH4CN2W75R2YW/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00047.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4526-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4525-1/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00025.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00032.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00034.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200814-0004/
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c51f8f88d705e06bd696d7510aff22b33eb8e638
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.07432.pdf

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