CVE•Published 2020-04-12•Modified 2026-05-29•0 articles on news•5 live references•NVD data

CVE-2020-11725Linux · Linux_kernel

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS percentile

Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 69% of all CVEs

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-704Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast

Description

snd_ctl_elem_add in sound/core/control.c in the Linux kernel through 5.6.3 has a count=info->owner line, which later affects a private_size*count multiplication for unspecified "interesting side effects." NOTE: kernel engineers dispute this finding, because it could be relevant only if new callers were added that were unfamiliar with the misuse of the info->owner field to represent data unrelated to the "owner" concept. The existing callers, SNDRV_CTL_IOCTL_ELEM_ADD and SNDRV_CTL_IOCTL_ELEM_REPLACE, have been designed to misuse the info->owner field in a safe way

Timeline

Published 2020-04-12

Modified 2026-05-29

External references

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Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts

vuln:CVE-2020-11725

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Shodan · OS

os:"Linux Kernel"

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Shodan report

vuln:CVE-2020-11725

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Censys

vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2020-11725