5.6
CVSSv3

CVE-2020-14390

Published: 18/09/2020 Updated: 02/11/2020
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.6 | Impact Score: 4.7 | Exploitability Score: 0.8
VMScore: 410
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in versions prior to 5.9-rc6. When changing screen size, an out-of-bounds memory write can occur leading to memory corruption or a denial of service. Due to the nature of the flaw, privilege escalation cannot be fully ruled out.

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Vendor Advisories

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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel When changing screen size, an out-of-bounds memory write can occur leading to memory corruption or a denial of service Due to the nature of the flaw, privilege escalation cannot be fully ruled out (CVE-2020-14390) A flaw was found in the capabilities check of the rados block device functionality in the Linux ...
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Mailing Lists

Hi, I found a out-of-bound write in fbcon_redraw_softback while the kernel version <= 59rc5 The oldest affected kernel version is 223 The root cause of this vulnerability is that the value of vc->vc_origin is not updated in time while invoking vc_do_resize This is my PoC (need the permission to open and write the tty, and need to hav ...