CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-36766
3.3 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-09-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 3.3 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Description
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.8.6. drivers/media/cec/core/cec-api.c leaks one byte of kernel memory on specific hardware to unprivileged users, because of directly assigning log_addrs with a hole in the struct.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.8.6)
References
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.8.6 Release Notes
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6c42227c3467549ddc65efe99c869021d2f4a570 Patch
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.8.6 Release Notes
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6c42227c3467549ddc65efe99c869021d2f4a570 Patch