3.6
CVSSv2

CVE-2020-8649

Published: 06/02/2020 Updated: 30/12/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 3.6 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.9 | Impact Score: 5.2 | Exploitability Score: 0.7
VMScore: 320
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

There is a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel up to and including 5.5.2 in the vgacon_invert_region function in drivers/video/console/vgacon.c.

Vulnerability Trend

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linux linux kernel

opensuse leap 15.1

debian debian linux 8.0

debian debian linux 9.0

Vendor Advisories

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks CVE-2019-2182 Hanjun Guo and Lei Li reported a race condition in the arm64 virtual memory management code, which could lead to an information disclosure, denial of service (crash), or possibl ...
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