CVE-2020-8647

medium

Description

There is a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel through 5.5.2 in the vc_do_resize function in drivers/tty/vt/vt.c.

References

Advisories
More

https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4698

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00013.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00012.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00011.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00039.html

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206359

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-02-06

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00059