Incorrect Conversion between Numeric Types Affecting kernel-rt-trace-devel package, versions <0:3.10.0-862.rt56.804.el7


Severity

high

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.18% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-KERNELRTTRACEDEVEL-2100520
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 12 Oct 2015

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:7 kernel-rt-trace-devel to version 0:3.10.0-862.rt56.804.el7 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-trace-devel package and not the kernel-rt-trace-devel package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, during DMA allocation, due to wrong data type of size, allocation size gets truncated which makes allocation succeed when it should fail.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

5.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

7.8 high
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Red Hat

5.5 medium