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Debian: CVE-2020-15780: linux -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2020-15780: linux -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
07/15/2020
Created
09/28/2020
Added
09/28/2020
Modified
09/30/2020

Description

An issue was discovered in drivers/acpi/acpi_configfs.c in the Linux kernel before 5.7.7. Injection of malicious ACPI tables via configfs could be used by attackers to bypass lockdown and secure boot restrictions, aka CID-75b0cea7bf30.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-linux

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