{"id":"CVE-2020-28915","details":"A buffer over-read (at the framebuffer layer) in the fbcon code in the Linux kernel before 5.8.15 could be used by local attackers to read kernel memory, aka CID-6735b4632def.","modified":"2026-04-16T04:34:45.560491652Z","published":"2020-11-18T08:15:12.180Z","related":["ALSA-2022:5316","ALSA-2022:5344","SUSE-SU-2020:3713-1","SUSE-SU-2020:3714-1","SUSE-SU-2020:3715-1","SUSE-SU-2020:3717-1","SUSE-SU-2020:3718-1","SUSE-SU-2020:3748-1","SUSE-SU-2020:3764-1","SUSE-SU-2020:3766-1","SUSE-SU-2020:3798-1","SUSE-SU-2021:0434-1","SUSE-SU-2021:0437-1","SUSE-SU-2021:0438-1","SUSE-SU-2021:0452-1","SUSE-SU-2021:14630-1","openSUSE-SU-2020:2034-1","openSUSE-SU-2020:2161-1","openSUSE-SU-2020:2260-1","openSUSE-SU-2021:0242-1"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.8.15"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178886"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5af08640795b2b9a940c9266c0260455377ae262"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6735b4632def0640dbdf4eb9f99816aca18c4f16"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=08b8be45afea11888776f897895aef9ad1c3ecfd"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.8.15"}]}],"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-28915.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H"}]}