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CVE-2021-20219

CVSS 3.1
5.5 medium
EPSS
<1%p34
Published
()
Modified
Description

A denial of service vulnerability was found in n_tty_receive_char_special in drivers/tty/n_tty.c of the Linux kernel. In this flaw a local attacker with a normal user privilege could delay the loop (due to a changing ldata->read_head, and a missing sanity check) and cause a threat to the system availability.

Vendors
linux
Products
linux kernel
Weakness
CWE-697
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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