CVE-2020-15437
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2020-15437 |
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| State | PUBLIC |
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| Assigner | [email protected] |
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| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
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| Published | 2020-11-23 21:15:00 UTC |
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| Updated | 2020-12-02 19:24:00 UTC |
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| Description | The Linux kernel before version 5.8 is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference in drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c:serial8250_isa_init_ports() that allows local users to cause a denial of service by using the p->serial_in pointer which uninitialized. |
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NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
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| LKML: Yang Yingliang: [PATCH] serial: 8250: fix null-ptr-deref in serial8250_start_tx() |
MISC |
lkml.org |
Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory |
| CVE Program record |
CVE.ORG |
www.cve.org |
canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail |
NVD |
nvd.nist.gov |
canonical, analysis |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.
Legacy QID Mappings
- 159185 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for kernel (ELSA-2021-1578)
- 239314 Red Hat Update for kernel-rt (RHSA-2021:1739)
- 239339 Red Hat Update for kernel (RHSA-2021:1578)
- 353100 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAC2012-2021-024
- 353101 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kmod-mlx5 : ALAC2012-2021-025
- 353102 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kmod-sfc : ALAC2012-2021-026
- 375284 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2021-1311)
- 670185 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2021-1684)
- 750376 OpenSUSE Security Update for RT kernel (openSUSE-SU-2021:0242-1)
- 750488 OpenSUSE Security Update for the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-SU-2020:2260-1)
- 750508 OpenSUSE Security Update for the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-SU-2020:2193-1)
- 750518 OpenSUSE Security Update for the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-SU-2020:2161-1)
- 900040 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for kernel 5.4.91
- 903625 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (3633)
- 905900 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (3633-1)
- 940354 AlmaLinux Security Update for kernel (ALSA-2021:1578)
