vulnerability
VMware Photon OS: CVE-2020-28941
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Nov 19, 2020 | Jan 20, 2025 | Sep 2, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Nov 19, 2020
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Sep 2, 2025
Description
An issue was discovered in drivers/accessibility/speakup/spk_ttyio.c in the Linux kernel through 5.9.9. Local attackers on systems with the speakup driver could cause a local denial of service attack, aka CID-d41227544427. This occurs because of an invalid free when the line discipline is used more than once.
Solution
vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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