What is CVE-2020-36786?

CVE-2020-36786 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux, classified under Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2024-02-28.

How severe is CVE-2020-36786?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2020-36786

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: [next] staging: media: atomisp: fix memory leak of object flash In the case where the call to lm3554_platform_data_func returns an error there is a memory leak on the error return path of object flash. Fix this by adding an error return path that will free flash and rename labels fail2 to fail3 and fail1 to fail2.

EPSS: 0.002 (12.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Linux — versions 9289cdf399922a1bd801a8cd946a79581c00a380, 5.10, 0
Linux Linux_kernel

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-36786?: CVE-2020-36786 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux, classified under Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2024-02-28.
How severe is CVE-2020-36786?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.