CVE-2020-28915

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CVSS 3.1

5.8 medium

EPSS

<1%p31

Published

Nov 18, 2020 (Nov 18, 2020)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

A buffer over-read (at the framebuffer layer) in the fbcon code in the Linux kernel before 5.8.15 could be used by local attackers to read kernel memory, aka CID-6735b4632def.

Vendors: linux
Products: linux kernel
Weakness: CWE-125
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H

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