# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2020-36776"
idYear: 2020
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-02-27T18:40:25.615Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:18:39.789Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:21.187Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2020-36776"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2020-36776.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-36776"
title: "thermal/drivers/cpufreq_cooling: Fix slab OOB issue"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nthermal/drivers/cpufreq_cooling: Fix slab OOB issue\n\nSlab OOB issue is scanned by KASAN in cpu_power_to_freq().\nIf power is limited below the power of OPP0 in EM table,\nit will cause slab out-of-bound issue with negative array\nindex.\n\nReturn the lowest frequency if limited power cannot found\na suitable OPP in EM table to fix this issue.\n\nBacktrace:\n[\u003cffffffd02d2a37f0\u003e] die+0x104/0x5ac\n[\u003cffffffd02d2a5630\u003e] bug_handler+0x64/0xd0\n[\u003cffffffd02d288ce4\u003e] brk_handler+0x160/0x258\n[\u003cffffffd02d281e5c\u003e] do_debug_exception+0x248/0x3f0\n[\u003cffffffd02d284488\u003e] el1_dbg+0x14/0xbc\n[\u003cffffffd02d75d1d4\u003e] __kasan_report+0x1dc/0x1e0\n[\u003cffffffd02d75c2e0\u003e] kasan_report+0x10/0x20\n[\u003cffffffd02d75def8\u003e] __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x18/0x28\n[\u003cffffffd02e6fce5c\u003e] cpufreq_power2state+0x180/0x43c\n[\u003cffffffd02e6ead80\u003e] power_actor_set_power+0x114/0x1d4\n[\u003cffffffd02e6fac24\u003e] allocate_power+0xaec/0xde0\n[\u003cffffffd02e6f9f80\u003e] power_allocator_throttle+0x3ec/0x5a4\n[\u003cffffffd02e6ea888\u003e] handle_thermal_trip+0x160/0x294\n[\u003cffffffd02e6edd08\u003e] thermal_zone_device_check+0xe4/0x154\n[\u003cffffffd02d351cb4\u003e] process_one_work+0x5e4/0xe28\n[\u003cffffffd02d352f44\u003e] worker_thread+0xa4c/0xfac\n[\u003cffffffd02d360124\u003e] kthread+0x33c/0x358\n[\u003cffffffd02d289940\u003e] ret_from_fork+0xc/0x18"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"371a3bc79c11b707d7a1b7a2c938dc3cc042fffb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c24a20912eef00587416628149c438e885eb1304"},{"version":"371a3bc79c11b707d7a1b7a2c938dc3cc042fffb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"876a5f33e5d961d879c5436987c09b3d9ef70379"},{"version":"371a3bc79c11b707d7a1b7a2c938dc3cc042fffb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6bf443acf6ca4f666d0e4225614ba9993a3aa1a9"},{"version":"371a3bc79c11b707d7a1b7a2c938dc3cc042fffb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"34ab17cc6c2c1ac93d7e5d53bb972df9a968f085"},{"version":"39e0651cac9c80865b2838f297f95ffc0f34a1d8","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"febe56f21371ba1e51e8586c3ddf8f54fc62fe61","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"d3b7bacd1115400b94482dfc7efffc175c29b831","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"9006b543384ab10902819364c1205f11a1458571","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4.14.189","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"4.19.134","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"5.4.53","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"5.7.8","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.8"},{"version":"5.10.36","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.11.20","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.11.*"},{"version":"5.12.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.12.*"},{"version":"5.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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