High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 7, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-36313

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.7. The KVM subsystem allows out-of-range access to memslots after a deletion, aka CID-0774a964ef56. This affects arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c, include/linux/kvm_host.h, and virt/kvm/kvm_main.c.

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Affected products

Linux/Kernel2 versions
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <5.7
- (no CPE)range: <5.7
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References

git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/nvdPatchVendor Advisory
cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.7nvdRelease NotesVendor Advisory
security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210604-0005/nvdThird Party Advisory

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