CVSS 3.1
5.9 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HCVE-2020-8649
Medium (5.9). EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
There is a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel through 5.5.2 in the vgacon_invert_region function in drivers/video/console/vgacon.c.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 42% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-416
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- linux:linux_kernel
- opensuse:leap
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00039.html
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206357
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00011.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00012.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00013.html