Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-36312 - Memory Leak vulnerability in Linux Kernel
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.8.10. virt/kvm/kvm_main.c has a kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev memory leak upon a kmalloc failure, aka CID-f65886606c2d.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.8.10
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.8.10
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f65886606c2d3b562716de030706dfe1bea4ed5e
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f65886606c2d3b562716de030706dfe1bea4ed5e