CVE-2020-36312

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 5.8.10 - Memory Leak in KVM I/O Bus Device Unregistration

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (2)

Core 2

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0031
EPSS Percentile 22.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-401
Status published
Products (1)
linux/linux_kernel < 5.8.10
Published Apr 07, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026