VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-13974

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.57%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-06-09
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 4.4 through 5.7.1. drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c has an integer overflow if k_ascii is called several times in a row, aka CID-b86dab054059. NOTE: Members in the community argue that the integer overflow does not lead to a security issue in this case.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-190

Primary references