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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 23, 2020· Updated Aug 4, 2024

CVE-2020-15437

CVE-2020-15437

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.

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