CVE-2020-36312: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.8.10 (fixed in 5.8.10)

Published 2021-04-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.