vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2020-28941

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
2020-11-19
Added
2025-01-20
Modified
2025-02-04

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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