{ "data_type": "CVE", "data_format": "MITRE", "data_version": "4.0", "CVE_data_meta": { "ID": "CVE-2021-20219", "ASSIGNER": "secalert@redhat.com", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "vendor_name": "n/a", "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "kernel", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "kernel 4.18" } ] } } ] } } ] } }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "CWE-697" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "refsource": "MISC", "name": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1923738", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1923738" } ] }, "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "A denial of service vulnerability was found in n_tty_receive_char_special in drivers/tty/n_tty.c of the Linux kernel. In this flaw a local attacker with a normal user privilege could delay the loop (due to a changing ldata->read_head, and a missing sanity check) and cause a threat to the system availability." } ] } }