CVE-2020-27784

Summary

CVECVE-2020-27784
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-09-01 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-05-16 10:51:00 UTC
DescriptionA vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel, where accessing a deallocated instance in printer_ioctl() printer_ioctl() tries to access of a printer_dev instance. However, use-after-free arises because it had been freed by gprinter_free().

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-416

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel - All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree MISC git.kernel.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 672454 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2022-2848)
  • 672474 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2022-2823)
  • 752589 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:3264-1)
  • 752632 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:3450-1)
  • 753370 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:3609-1)
  • 753374 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:3809-1)
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