CVE-2020-10751 - Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

Severity

61%

Complexity

18%

Confidentiality

70%

A flaw was found in the Linux kernels SELinux LSM hook implementation before version 5.7, where it incorrectly assumed that an skb would only contain a single netlink message. The hook would incorrectly only validate the first netlink message in the skb and allow or deny the rest of the messages within the skb with the granted permission without further processing.

CVSS 3.1 Base Score 6.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 3.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 4 years ago

2020-05-26 15:15:00

Last updated 4 years ago

2020-07-15 19:15:00

Affected Software

RedHat Enterprise Linux Server 7.0

7.0

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