CVE-2020-36766 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

3.3