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CVE-2020-15780

An issue was discovered in drivers/acpi/acpi_configfs.c in the Linux kernel before 5.7.7.

Impact

An issue was discovered in drivers/acpi/acpi_configfs.c in the Linux kernel before 5.7.7. Injection of malicious ACPI tables via configfs could be used by attackers to bypass lockdown and secure boot restrictions, aka CID-75b0cea7bf30.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
before 5.7.7
OpensuseLeap
Versions 15.1, 15.2
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Versions 16.04, 18.04, 20.04

Weakness classification

References