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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-28941: Security patch for kernel ((Multiple Advisories))

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-28941: Security patch for kernel ((Multiple Advisories))

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
11/19/2020
Created
12/22/2020
Added
12/19/2020
Modified
10/14/2022

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.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel

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