CVE-2020-16119

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel exploitable by a local attacker due to reuse of a DCCP socket with an attached dccps_hc_tx_ccid object as a listener after being released. Fixed in Ubuntu Linux kernel 5.4.0-51.56, 5.3.0-68.63, 4.15.0-121.123, 4.4.0-193.224, 3.13.0.182.191 and 3.2.0-149.196.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-16119

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16119.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed5.4.93-2
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed5.14.6-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.10.46-5
debian debianforkyfixed5.14.6-1
debian debiansidfixed5.14.6-1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.14.6-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.