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LIN1021-6546 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2020-36766

Created: Sep 18, 2023    Updated: Sep 20, 2023
Found In Version: 10.21.20.1
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 21
Component/s: Kernel

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.

CREATE(Triage):(User=admin) CVE-2020-36766 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36766)
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