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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-2020-36791"
idYear: 2020
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-07T13:17:33.882Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:44:33.087Z"
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-2020-36791"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2020-36791.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-36791"
title: "net_sched: keep alloc_hash updated after hash allocation"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet_sched: keep alloc_hash updated after hash allocation\n\nIn commit 599be01ee567 (\"net_sched: fix an OOB access in cls_tcindex\")\nI moved cp-\u003ehash calculation before the first\ntcindex_alloc_perfect_hash(), but cp-\u003ealloc_hash is left untouched.\nThis difference could lead to another out of bound access.\n\ncp-\u003ealloc_hash should always be the size allocated, we should\nupdate it after this tcindex_alloc_perfect_hash()."
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