CVE-2020-28941 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/19/5 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git/commit/?h=tty-linus&id=d4122754442799187d5d537a9c039a49a67e57f1 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d4122754442799187d5d537a9c039a49a67e57f1 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/19/3 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d4122754442799187d5d537a9c039a49a67e57f1 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZF4OGZPKTAJJXWHPIFP3LHEWWEMR5LPT/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TITJQPYDWZ4NB2ONJWUXW75KSQIPF35T/ https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00015.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5