CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-28915
5.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-11-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.1 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
A buffer over-read (at the framebuffer layer) in the fbcon code in the Linux kernel before 5.8.15 could be used by local attackers to read kernel memory, aka CID-6735b4632def.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.8.15)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178886 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.8.15 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5af08640795b2b9a940c9266c0260455377ae262 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6735b4632def0640dbdf4eb9f99816aca18c4f16 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=08b8be45afea11888776f897895aef9ad1c3ecfd Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178886 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.8.15 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5af08640795b2b9a940c9266c0260455377ae262 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6735b4632def0640dbdf4eb9f99816aca18c4f16 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=08b8be45afea11888776f897895aef9ad1c3ecfd Patch, Third Party Advisory