CVE-2020-28915: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.8.15 (fixed in 5.8.15)

Published 2020-11-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.