CVE-2020-15437

n/a / linux kernel PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
n/a / linux kernel	affected 5.7 (verified), possibly others 4.18

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

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

ADP enrichment

CVE

No English description supplied.

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