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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-8647: Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2020-4431)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-8647: Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2020-4431)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/06/2020
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

Description

There is a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel through 5.5.2 in the vc_do_resize function in drivers/tty/vt/vt.c.

Solution(s)

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

References

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