| Name | CVE-2020-28941 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-2483-1 |
| NVD severity | medium |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux (PTS) | stretch | 4.9.228-1 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 4.9.290-1 | fixed | |
| buster | 4.19.208-1 | fixed | |
| buster (security) | 4.19.194-3 | fixed | |
| bullseye | 5.10.84-1 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security) | 5.10.92-1 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 5.15.5-2 | fixed | |
| sid | 5.15.15-1 | fixed | |
| linux-4.19 (PTS) | stretch (security) | 4.19.208-1~deb9u1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| linux | source | stretch | (not affected) | |||
| linux | source | buster | 4.19.160-1 | |||
| linux | source | (unstable) | 5.9.11-1 | |||
| linux-4.19 | source | stretch | 4.19.160-2~deb9u1 | DLA-2483-1 |
[stretch] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/19/3