A denial of service vulnerability was found in n_tty_receive_char_special in drivers/tty/n_tty.c of the Linux kernel. In this flaw a local attacker with a normal user privilege could delay the loop (due to a changing ldata->read_head, and a missing sanity check) and cause a threat to the system availability.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2021-03-23T16:34:00

Updated: 2024-08-03T17:30:07.576Z

Reserved: 2020-12-17T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-20219

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-03-23T17:15:13.607

Modified: 2021-03-26T19:48:33.537

Link: CVE-2021-20219

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-05-26T03:30:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-20219 - Bugzilla