CVE-2020-36766

Summary

CVECVE-2020-36766
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-09-18 09:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-09-19 21:23:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
cec-api: prevent leaking memory through hole in structure · torvalds/linux@6c42227 · GitHub MISC github.com
cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.8.6 MISC cdn.kernel.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 673644 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-3336)
  • 673848 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-3217)
  • 755060 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:4031-1)
  • 755061 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:4030-1)
  • 755063 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:4032-1)
  • 755107 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:4095-1)
  • 755565 SUSE Security Update for the linux kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:4347-1)
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