CVE-2020-35499

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

A NULL pointer dereference flaw in Linux kernel versions prior to 5.11 may be seen if sco_sock_getsockopt function in net/bluetooth/sco.c do not have a sanity check for a socket connection, when using BT_SNDMTU/BT_RCVMTU for SCO sockets. This could allow a local attacker with a special user privilege to crash the system (DOS) or leak kernel internal information.

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-2020-35499

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-35499.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed5.10.4.arch1-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed5.10.4-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.10.4-1
debian debianforkyfixed5.10.4-1
debian debiansidfixed5.10.4-1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.10.4-1

References

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