CVE-2020-13143: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 5.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

gadget_dev_desc_UDC_store in drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c in the Linux kernel 3.16 through 5.6.13 relies on kstrdup without considering the possibility of an internal '\0' value, which allows attackers to trigger an out-of-bounds read, aka CID-15753588bcd4.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 19.10 only; version 20.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: from 3.16, up to and including 5.6.13
• Netapp a700s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Bootstrap OS: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Cloud Backup: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Element Software: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h300e Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h300s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h410c Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h410s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h500e Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h500s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h610c Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h610s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h615c Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h700e Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h700s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Hci Management Node: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Solidfire: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Solidfire Baseboard Management Controller Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Steelstore Cloud Integrated Storage: affected versions not specified
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only; version 15.2 only

Published 2020-05-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.