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Alma Linux: CVE-2019-20636: Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2020-4431)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2019-20636: Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2020-4431)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
04/08/2020
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

Description

In the Linux kernel before 5.4.12, drivers/input/input.c has out-of-bounds writes via a crafted keycode table, as demonstrated by input_set_keycode, aka CID-cb222aed03d7.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs-devel

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