5.5

CVE-2021-20219

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.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version < 4.18
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.4% 0.317
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
NIST 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NIST 2.1 3.9 2.9
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CWE-697 Incorrect Comparison

The product compares two entities in a security-relevant context, but the comparison is incorrect.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1923738
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