# CVE-2020-36313: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.7.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-04-06 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.7. The KVM subsystem allows out-of-range access to memslots after a deletion, aka CID-0774a964ef56. This affects arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c, include/linux/kvm_host.h, and virt/kvm/kvm_main.c.

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0774a964ef561b7170d8d1b1bfe6f88002b6d219
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.7
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210604-0005/

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