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CVE-2020-12465 json

An array overflow was discovered in mt76_add_fragment in drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/dma.c in the Linux kernel before 5.5.10, aka CI…

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-4774

cvss
6.7
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 32%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An array overflow was discovered in mt76_add_fragment in drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/dma.c in the Linux kernel before 5.5.10, aka CID-b102f0c522cf. An oversized packet with too many rx fragments can corrupt memory of adjacent pages.

Patch / fix

  • linux linux_kernel 4.19.111, 5.4.26, 5.5.10
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.5.13-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-12465

  • linux-hwe Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.3.0-51.44~18.04.2
  • linux-aws-5.3 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.3.0-1017.18~18.04.1
  • linux-gcp-5.3 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.3.0-1018.19~18.04.1
  • linux-gke-5.0 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.0.0-1035.36
  • linux-gke-5.3 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.3.0-1018.19~18.04.1
  • linux-oem-osp1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.0.0-1050.55
  • linux-azure-5.3 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.3.0-1020.21~18.04.1
  • linux-oracle-5.3 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.3.0-1016.18~18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2020-12465

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel RHEL 8 4.18.0-240.el8
  • perf RHEL 8 4.18.0-240.el8
  • bpftool RHEL 8 4.18.0-240.el8
  • kernel-core RHEL 8 4.18.0-240.el8
  • kernel-tools RHEL 8 4.18.0-240.el8
  • python3-perf RHEL 8 4.18.0-240.el8
  • kernel-modules RHEL 8 4.18.0-240.el8
  • kernel-zfcpdump RHEL 8 4.18.0-240.el8

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:4431

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red hat product security vex CVE-2020-12465 updated cvss 6.7

kernel: buffer overflow in mt76_add_fragment function in drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/dma.c

  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 4.18.0-240.el8, kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 4.18.0-240.el8, kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64le 4.18.0-240.el8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) perf 4.18.0-240.el8, kernel 4.18.0-240.el8, bpftool 4.18.0-240.el8, kernel-core 4.18.0-240.el8, kernel-tools 4.18.0-240.el8, python3-perf 4.18.0-240.el8, +15 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:4431
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-alt, python-perf, +9 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 kernel-rt, kernel-rt-kvm, kernel-rt-core, kernel-rt-modules, kernel-rt-debug-kvm, kernel-rt-debug-core, +6 more Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 kernel-rt, mrg-rt-release, kernel-rt-trace, kernel-rt-vanilla, kernel-rt-firmware
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 32% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input
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