CVE-2020-36766

low

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.

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6c42227c3467549ddc65efe99c869021d2f4a570

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.8.6

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-09-18

Updated: 2023-09-19

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 3.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low