# CVE-2020-36766: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.8.6.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-09-18 · Updated: 2024-09-25

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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.

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## References

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

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