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CVE-2020-27830

kernel: null pointer dereference in in spk_ttyio_receive_buf2

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · November 30, 2020

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel where in the spk_ttyio_receive_buf2() function, it would dereference spk_ttyio_synth without checking whether it is NULL or not, and may lead to a NULL-ptr deref crash.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference