An issue was discovered in drivers/accessibility/speakup/spk_ttyio.c in the Linux kernel through 5.9.9. Local attackers on systems with the speakup driver could cause a local denial of service attack, aka CID-d41227544427. This occurs because of an invalid free when the line discipline is used more than once.
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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2020-11-19T15:23:28.000Z

Updated: 2026-05-29T16:06:53.239Z

Reserved: 2020-11-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-28941

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T16:48:00.475Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-11-19T19:15:11.797

Modified: 2026-06-17T03:10:52.583

Link: CVE-2020-28941

cve-icon Redhat

Severity :

Publid Date: 2020-11-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-28941 - Bugzilla