CVE-2020-36790 (GCVE-0-2020-36790)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-01 14:09 – Updated: 2025-05-04 06:59
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Title
nvmet: fix a memory leak
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvmet: fix a memory leak We forgot to free new_model_number
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Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 013b7ebe5a0d70e2a02fd225174595e79c591b3e , < 227064b2ca9e62270ed445665ae849c73f0dfb2c (git)
Affected: 013b7ebe5a0d70e2a02fd225174595e79c591b3e , < 382fee1a8b623e2546a3e15e80517389e0e0673e (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.7
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.7 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.8.6 , ≤ 5.8.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.9 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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