Vigil@nce - Linux kernel: integer overflow via drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c
August 2020 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Linux, openSUSE Leap, SUSE Linux Enterprise
Desktop, SLES, Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: administrator access/rights, denial of service on
server.
Provenance: user shell.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 10/06/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger an integer overflow via
drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c of the Linux kernel, in order to trigger
a denial of service, and possibly to run code.
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https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Linux-kernel-integer-overflow-via-drivers-tty-vt-keyboard-c-32511