CVE-2020-15437

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-15437
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-15437.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-15437
Downstream
DEBIAN (1)
openSUSE (4)
RHSA (2)
SUSE (14)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
ALSA (1)
openSUSE (4)
SUSE (14)
Published
2020-11-23T21:15:11Z
Modified
2026-03-14T10:06:35Z
Severity
  • 4.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-15437.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events":  [
            {
                "introduced":  "0"
            },
            {
                "fixed":  "5.8"
            }
        ]
    }
]