CVE-2020-28097 (GCVE-0-2020-28097)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-06-24 12:00
Modified
2026-10-08 21:03
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The vgacon subsystem in the Linux kernel before 5.8.10 mishandles software scrollback. There is a vgacon_scrolldelta out-of-bounds read, aka CID-973c096f6a85.
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