FKIE_CVE-2020-28941

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-11-19 19:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:10
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
An issue was discovered in drivers/accessibility/speakup/spk_ttyio.c in the Linux kernel through 5.9.9. Local attackers on systems with the speakup driver could cause a local denial of service attack, aka CID-d41227544427. This occurs because of an invalid free when the line discipline is used more than once.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/19/5Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d4122754442799187d5d537a9c039a49a67e57f1Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git/commit/?h=tty-linus&id=d4122754442799187d5d537a9c039a49a67e57f1Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d4122754442799187d5d537a9c039a49a67e57f1Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00015.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TITJQPYDWZ4NB2ONJWUXW75KSQIPF35T/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZF4OGZPKTAJJXWHPIFP3LHEWWEMR5LPT/
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/19/3Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/19/5Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d4122754442799187d5d537a9c039a49a67e57f1Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git/commit/?h=tty-linus&id=d4122754442799187d5d537a9c039a49a67e57f1Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d4122754442799187d5d537a9c039a49a67e57f1Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00015.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TITJQPYDWZ4NB2ONJWUXW75KSQIPF35T/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZF4OGZPKTAJJXWHPIFP3LHEWWEMR5LPT/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/19/3Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
fedoraproject fedora 32
fedoraproject fedora 33
debian debian_linux 9.0
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