CVE-2020-36386

A flaw out of bounds memory access in the Linux kernel bluetooth subsystem was found in the way when some data being read about the bluetooth device with the hci_extended_inquiry_result_evt call. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system or read some data out of memory bounds that can lead to data confidentiality threat.

This flaw is rated as having a Moderate impact because even the data being read out of memory bounds is written to some cache, it was known before that this data from non-safe source and as result no any sensitive dependencies on this data.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

To mitigate this issue, prevent the module bluetooth from being loaded (if Bluetooth not required for the system). Please see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 for information on how to blacklist a kernel module to prevent it from loading automatically.