CVE-2020-25656MediumMicrosoft CVSS 4.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Microsoft security update for CVE-2020-25656 — cm1 kernel 5.4.91-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0

Published
December 5, 2020
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Microsoft's advisory

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🎯 Affected products1

  • cm1 kernel 5.4.91-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0

✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 update

1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.

KB articleUpdateFixed build
—Security Update5.4.91-1

🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2020-25656

EchelonGraph score
4.1 MEDIUM
CISA KEV
Not listed
Fix status
A fix is available — apply it.

Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A use-after-free was found in the way the console subsystem was using ioctls KDGKBSENT and KDSKBSENT. A local user could use this flaw to get read memory access out of bounds. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.

Published by Red Hat, Inc., the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2020-25656, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).

🔗 References (2)