vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2020-28915: CVE-2020-28915 kernel: out-of-bounds read in fbcon_get_font function (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C)
Published
Nov 18, 2020
Added
Jul 5, 2022
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

A buffer over-read (at the framebuffer layer) in the fbcon code in the Linux kernel before 5.8.15 could be used by local attackers to read kernel memory, aka CID-6735b4632def.

Solution(s)

no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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