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CVE-2020-36766 (GCVE-0-2020-36766)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-18 00:00 – Updated: 2024-09-25 18:00
VLAI
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-25 18:00 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
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