vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2021-20219: kernel: improper synchronization in flush_to_ldisc() can lead to DoS

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 23, 2021
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

A denial of service vulnerability was found in n_tty_receive_char_special in drivers/tty/n_tty.c of the Linux kernel. In this flaw a local attacker with a normal user privilege could delay the loop (due to a changing ldata->read_head, and a missing sanity check) and cause a threat to the system availability.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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