Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-36777 - 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
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: dvbdev: Fix memory leak in dvb_media_device_free() dvb_media_device_free() is leaking memory. Free `dvbdev->adapter->conn` before setting it to NULL, as documented in include/media/media-device.h: "The media_entity instance itself must be freed explicitly by the driver if required."
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06854b943e0571ccbd7ad0a529babed1a98ff275
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06854b943e0571ccbd7ad0a529babed1a98ff275
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32168ca1f123316848fffb85d059860adf3c409f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32168ca1f123316848fffb85d059860adf3c409f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43263fd43083e412311fa764cd04a727b0c6a749
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43263fd43083e412311fa764cd04a727b0c6a749
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9185b3b1c143b8da409c19ac5a785aa18d67a81b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9185b3b1c143b8da409c19ac5a785aa18d67a81b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ad15e214fcd73694ea51967d86055f47b802066
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ad15e214fcd73694ea51967d86055f47b802066
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf9a40ae8d722f281a2721779595d6df1c33a0bf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf9a40ae8d722f281a2721779595d6df1c33a0bf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd89f79be5d553c78202f686e8e4caa5fbe94e98
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd89f79be5d553c78202f686e8e4caa5fbe94e98
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cede24d13be6c2a62be6d7ceea63c2719b0cfa82
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cede24d13be6c2a62be6d7ceea63c2719b0cfa82