Vulnerability CVE-2020-36766
Published: 2023-09-18   Modified: 2023-09-19

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://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.8.6
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6c42227c3467549ddc65efe99c869021d2f4a570
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