vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2020-27784: kernel: deallocated instance in printer_ioctl() printer_ioctl() tries to access lock_printer_io of the printer_dev instance

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 1, 2022
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel, where accessing a deallocated instance in printer_ioctl() printer_ioctl() tries to access of a printer_dev instance. However, use-after-free arises because it had been freed by gprinter_free().

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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