Security Advisory

CVE-2020-36777

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-02-27 18:40:26
Last updated 2026-05-11 13:42:41
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

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."