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CVE-2019-20810

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-06-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-401

Description

go7007_snd_init in drivers/media/usb/go7007/snd-go7007.c in the Linux kernel before 5.6 does not call snd_card_free for a failure path, which causes a memory leak, aka CID-9453264ef586.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 20.04
• Linux kernel: before 5.6 — fixed in 5.6
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1, 15.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 5.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00008.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00009.html
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.6
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9453264ef58638ce8976121ac44c07a3ef375983
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00019.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4427-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4439-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4440-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4483-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4485-1/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00008.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00009.html

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