fkie_cve-2020-36766
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2023-09-18 09:15
Modified
2024-11-21 05:30
Summary
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *



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  "id": "CVE-2020-36766",
  "lastModified": "2024-11-21T05:30:15.533",
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