Security Advisory

CVE-2020-28941

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-11-19 15:23:28
Last updated 2024-08-04 16:48:00
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.