CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-8649
5.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-02-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.6 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
There is a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel through 5.5.2 in the vgacon_invert_region function in drivers/video/console/vgacon.c.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 5.5.2)
• opensuse leap 15.1
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00039.html Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206357 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00011.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00012.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00013.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4698 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00039.html Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206357 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00011.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00012.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00013.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4698 Third Party Advisory