CVE-2020-28941

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 14
Modified
Published: 19 Nov 2020, 15:23
Last modified:29 May 2026, 16:06

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
low
22/100
CVSS Score
5.5 MEDIUM
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.06% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

19 Nov 2020, 15:23
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
29 May 2026, 16:06
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

An issue was discovered in drivers/accessibility/speakup/spk_ttyio.c in the Linux kernel through 5.9.9. Local attackers on systems with the speakup driver could cause a local denial of service attack, aka CID-d41227544427. This occurs because of an invalid free when the line discipline is used more than once.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 4.9AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.06%• Percentile: 20%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-763•Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference

    The product attempts to return a memory resource to the system, but it calls the wrong release function or calls the appropriate release function incorrectly.

Affected Systems

  • debian•debian_linux

    9.0

  • fedoraproject•fedora

    32 | 33

  • linux•linux_kernel

    ≤ 5.9.9

References (8)