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SUSE: CVE-2020-27830: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2020-27830: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/12/2021
Created
01/20/2021
Added
01/15/2021
Modified
06/02/2021

Description

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel where in the spk_ttyio_receive_buf2() function, it would dereference spk_ttyio_synth without checking whether it is NULL or not, and may lead to a NULL-ptr deref crash.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default

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