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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2020-36784"
idYear: 2020
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-02-28T08:13:05.418Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:42:50.017Z"
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-2020-36784"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2020-36784.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-36784"
title: "i2c: cadence: fix reference leak when pm_runtime_get_sync fails"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ni2c: cadence: fix reference leak when pm_runtime_get_sync fails\n\nThe PM reference count is not expected to be incremented on\nreturn in functions cdns_i2c_master_xfer and cdns_reg_slave.\n\nHowever, pm_runtime_get_sync will increment pm usage counter\neven failed. Forgetting to putting operation will result in a\nreference leak here.\n\nReplace it with pm_runtime_resume_and_get to keep usage\ncounter balanced."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7fa32329ca03148fb2c07b4ef3247b8fc0488d6a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"30410519328c94367e561fd878e5f0d3a0303585"},{"version":"7fa32329ca03148fb2c07b4ef3247b8fc0488d6a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d57ff04e0ed6f3be1682ae861ead33f879225e07"},{"version":"7fa32329ca03148fb2c07b4ef3247b8fc0488d6a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a45fc41beed8e0fe31864619c34aa00797fb60c1"},{"version":"7fa32329ca03148fb2c07b4ef3247b8fc0488d6a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"23ceb8462dc6f4b4decdb5536a7e5fc477cdf0b6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.5"},{"version":"5.10.37","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.11.21","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.11.*"},{"version":"5.12.4","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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