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Vulnerability · Published Sep 18, 2023 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-36766

Low 3.3

In plain English

A low-severity security flaw in the linux package (Debian). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 15% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)3.3Low
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 84.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux5.8.7-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-36766
Debian:13linux5.8.7-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-36766
Debian:14linux5.8.7-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-36766
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-36766
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-36766
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-36766
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-36766
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-36766
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-36766
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-36766
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-36766
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-36766
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-36766
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-36766
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-36766
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-36766
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-36766
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-36766
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-36766
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-36766
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-36766
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-36766
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-36766
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-36766
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-36766
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-36766

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
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References