cve-2020-27784
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-09-01 17:56
Modified
2024-08-04 16:25
Severity
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().
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secalert@redhat.comhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e8d5f92b8d30bb4ade76494490c3c065e12411b1Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
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