CVE-2020-27418

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

A Use After Free vulnerability in Fedora Linux kernel 5.9.0-rc9 allows attackers to obatin sensitive information via vgacon_invert_region() function.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-27418

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-27418.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed5.5.13-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.5.13-1
debian debianforkyfixed5.5.13-1
debian debiansidfixed5.5.13-1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.5.13-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.