Vulnerability CVE-2020-15437


Published: 2020-11-23   Modified: 2020-11-24

Description:
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:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/7/21/80

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