CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2020-28941
Medium (5.5). EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 26% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-763
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/19/5
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d4122754442799187d5d537a9c039a49a67e57f1
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git/commit/?h=tty-linus&id=d4122754442799187d5d537a9c039a49a67e57f1
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d4122754442799187d5d537a9c039a49a67e57f1
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00015.html