CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2020-36777
Medium (5.5) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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."
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 15% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-401
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06854b943e0571ccbd7ad0a529babed1a98ff275
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32168ca1f123316848fffb85d059860adf3c409f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43263fd43083e412311fa764cd04a727b0c6a749
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9185b3b1c143b8da409c19ac5a785aa18d67a81b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ad15e214fcd73694ea51967d86055f47b802066