CVE-2020-15437

Published: Nov 23, 2020

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	linux kernel	affected `5.7 (verified), possibly others 4.18`

References

https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/7/21/80

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CVE-2020-15437

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