GHSA-x5h6-wmmc-r9x2

GHSA-x5h6-wmmc-r9x2 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.900000095367432 MEDIUM

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 24, 2022

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.

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

5.900000095367432

CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Timeline

May 24, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory

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vulnetix vdb fixes GHSA-x5h6-wmmc-r9x2

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References

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.8.10 url
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=973c096f6a85e5b5f2a295126ba6928d9a6afd45 url
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q3/176 url
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28097 advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210805-0001 url
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/973c096f6a85e5b5f2a295126ba6928d9a6afd45 fix

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