CVE-2020-25656
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.4%
exploitation probability
0.4%top 64% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A use-after-free was found in the way the console subsystem was using ioctls KDGKBSENT and KDSKBSENT. A local user could use this flaw to get read memory access out of bounds. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.
Affected products
n/a · kernelReferences
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1888726https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00015.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00027.htmlhttps://lkml.org/lkml/2020/10/16/84https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/10/29/528https://www.starwindsoftware.com/security/sw-20210325-0006/