CVE-2020-28941 (GCVE-0-2020-28941)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-11-19 15:23 – Updated: 2026-05-29 16:06
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Summary
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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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