CVE-2020-36785 (GCVE-0-2020-36785)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-02-28 08:13
Modified
2026-08-26 11:00
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: atomisp: Fix use after free in atomisp_alloc_css_stat_bufs()
The "s3a_buf" is freed along with all the other items on the
"asd->s3a_stats" list. It leads to a double free and a use after free.
References
Impacted products
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