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CVE-2020-25656

Published: Dec 2, 2020

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	kernel	affected `kernel 5.10-rc2`

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1888726

https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/10/29/528

https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/10/16/84

[debian-lts-announce] 20201210 [SECURITY] [DLA 2483-1] linux-4.19 security update

mailing-list

[debian-lts-announce] 20201218 [SECURITY] [DLA 2494-1] linux security update

mailing-list

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/security/sw-20210325-0006/

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