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CVE-2020-13696
- Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2020-06-08 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-863
Description
An issue was discovered in LinuxTV xawtv before 3.107. The function dev_open() in v4l-conf.c does not perform sufficient checks to prevent an unprivileged caller of the program from opening unintended filesystem paths. This allows a local attacker with access to the v4l-conf setuid-root program to test for the existence of arbitrary files and to trigger an open on arbitrary files with mode O_RDWR. To achieve this, relative path components need to be added to the device path, as demonstrated by a v4l-conf -c /dev/../root/.bash_history command.
Affected products
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04
- Debian Linux: 8.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 31, 32
- Linuxtv Xawtv: before 3.107 — fixed in 3.107
- openSUSE Backports Sle: 15.0-sp1
- openSUSE Leap: 15.1
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Linuxtv Xawtv 3.107. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00009.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00013.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/06/04/6
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-13696
- https://git.linuxtv.org/xawtv3.git/commit/?id=31f31f9cbaee7be806cba38e0ff5431bd44b20a3
- https://git.linuxtv.org/xawtv3.git/commit/?id=36dc44e68e5886339b4a0fbe3f404fb1a4fd2292
- https://git.linuxtv.org/xawtv3.git/commit/?id=8e3feea862db68d3ca0886f46cd99fab45d2db7c
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00018.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ELOXU5LXQSQOXX64D4BICZV3TQWOBXHC/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I7XWAO7W2DGA6M52JGK2TDWUGF62Q2KY/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4518-1/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00009.html
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