Security Advisory

CVE-2020-15437

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-11-23 20:10:28
Last updated 2024-08-04 13:15:20
Assigner openEuler
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.