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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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Updated: 2024-08-04T16:48:00.475Z

Reserved: 2020-11-19T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-28941

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Status : Modified

Published: 2020-11-19T19:15:11.797

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:23:20.403

Link: CVE-2020-28941

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Publid Date: 2020-11-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-28941 - Bugzilla

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