SUSE: CVE-2020-15437: SUSE Linux Security Advisory
5
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
11/23/2020
12/14/2020
12/11/2020
02/04/2022
Description
The Linux kernel before version 5.8 is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference in drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c:serial8250_isa_init_ports() that allows local users to cause a denial of service by using the p->serial_in pointer which uninitialized.
Solution(s)
- suse-upgrade-kernel-default
- suse-upgrade-kernel-default-extra
- suse-upgrade-kernel-docs
- suse-upgrade-kernel-obs-build
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