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SUSE: CVE-2020-28097: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2020-28097: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/24/2021
Created
02/18/2022
Added
02/11/2022
Modified
02/24/2022

Description

The vgacon subsystem in the Linux kernel before 5.8.10 mishandles software scrollback. There is a vgacon_scrolldelta out-of-bounds read, aka CID-973c096f6a85.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-cluster-md-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-cluster-md-kmp-preempt
  • suse-upgrade-dlm-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-dlm-kmp-preempt
  • suse-upgrade-dtb-al
  • suse-upgrade-dtb-zte
  • suse-upgrade-gfs2-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-gfs2-kmp-preempt
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-extra
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-docs
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-obs-build
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-preempt
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-preempt-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-preempt-extra
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-preempt-livepatch-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-preempt-optional
  • suse-upgrade-kselftests-kmp-preempt
  • suse-upgrade-ocfs2-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-ocfs2-kmp-preempt
  • suse-upgrade-reiserfs-kmp-preempt

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