CVE-2020-27784
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-09-01 17:56
Modified
2024-08-04 16:25
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel, where accessing a deallocated instance in printer_ioctl() printer_ioctl() tries to access of a printer_dev instance. However, use-after-free arises because it had been freed by gprinter_free().
References
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|---|---|---|---|
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