VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-11725

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.51%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-04-12
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-noinfo
  • 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0: CWE-704

Primary references