# 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-2020-36777"
idYear: 2020
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-02-27T18:40:26.245Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:42:41.832Z"
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-2020-36777"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2020-36777.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-36777"
title: "media: dvbdev: Fix memory leak in dvb_media_device_free()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: dvbdev: Fix memory leak in dvb_media_device_free()\n\ndvb_media_device_free() is leaking memory. Free `dvbdev-\u003eadapter-\u003econn`\nbefore setting it to NULL, as documented in include/media/media-device.h:\n\"The media_entity instance itself must be freed explicitly by the driver\nif required.\""
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