Red Hat: CVE-2020-8649: Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Multiple Advisories)
4
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
02/06/2020
10/01/2020
10/01/2020
05/16/2022
Description
There is a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel through 5.5.2 in the vgacon_invert_region function in drivers/video/console/vgacon.c.
Solution(s)
- redhat-upgrade-kernel
- redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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