CVE-2020-11609 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2020-11609?

CVE-2020-11609 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 7 Apr 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered in the stv06xx subsystem in the Linux kernel before 5.6.1. drivers/media/usb/gspca/stv06xx/stv06xx.c and drivers/media/usb/gspca/stv06xx/stv06xx_pb0100.c mishandle invalid descriptors, as demonstrated by a NULL pointer dereference, aka CID-485b06aadb93.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-11609?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2020-11609?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2020-11609 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-11609 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-11609, GHSA-g4x2-424v-7x3q, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-11609.