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CVE-2019-20810

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-20810 is a memory leak vulnerability in the Linux kernel's go7007 USB audio driver, specifically affecting versions before 5.6, including various Canonical, Linux, and OpenSUSE distributions. Rated Medium (CVSS 5.5), a local attacker with low privileges could exploit this to cause a denial of service through resource exhaustion. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 5.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
37.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0046 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 17036-16820Fixed in: 5.4.91-3
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cm1 kernel 5.4.91-3 on CBL Mariner 1.0Fixed in: 5.4.91-3
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 1.0 x64Fixed in: 5.4.91-3
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 1.0 ARMFixed in: 5.4.91-3

Vendor Advisories (3)

microsoft2020-Sep/CVE-2019-20810

CVE-2019-20810

Sep 8, 2020
microsoft2020-Jun/CVE-2019-20810Moderate

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.

Jun 9, 2020
redhatCVE-2019-20810Moderate

kernel: 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

Jun 3, 2020

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00008.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00009.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
cdn.kernel.org / pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.6
Release NotesVendor Advisory
git.kernel.org / pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit
PatchVendor Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00019.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4427-1
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4439-1
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4440-1
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4483-1
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4485-1
Third Party Advisory