CVE-2020-15437
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-11-23 20:10
Modified
2024-08-04 13:15
Severity ?
Summary
The Linux kernel before version 5.8 is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference in drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c:serial8250_isa_init_ports() that allows local users to cause a denial of service by using the p->serial_in pointer which uninitialized.
References
securities@openeuler.orghttps://lkml.org/lkml/2020/7/21/80Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
n/alinux kernel
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