CVE-2020-36766 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2020-36766?

CVE-2020-36766 is a low-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 18 Sep 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-36766?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2020-36766?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2020-36766 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-36766 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

• CVE-2026-53266 Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2013-6282 Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2022-0185 Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

All Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-36766, GHSA-7qgc-m2cg-2rh4, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-36766.