Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,v5.17-rc4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.05% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-2407769
  • published 21 Feb 2022
  • disclosed 21 Feb 2022
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version v5.17-rc4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure via drivers/usb/gadget/function/rndis.c in the Linux kernel before 5.16.10. The RNDIS USB gadget lacks validation of the size of the RNDIS_MSG_SET command. Attackers can obtain sensitive information from kernel memory.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
5.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

5.5 medium
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SUSE

5.5 medium
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Red Hat

5.5 medium