CVE-2020-28941

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

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.

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-2020-28941

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-28941.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed5.9.11.arch1-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed5.9.11-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.9.11-1
debian debianforkyfixed5.9.11-1
debian debiansidfixed5.9.11-1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.9.11-1

References

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