Security Advisory

CVE-2020-25656

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-12-02 00:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-04 15:40:36
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A use-after-free was found in the way the console subsystem was using ioctls KDGKBSENT and KDSKBSENT. A local user could use this flaw to get read memory access out of bounds. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.