Incomplete Cleanup Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [5.17-rc1,5.17-rc5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-2932163
  • published20 Jun 2022
  • disclosed20 Jun 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Jun 2022

CVE-2022-0646  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-459  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.17-rc5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incomplete Cleanup in the Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) subsystem, in the way the user triggers cancel_work_sync after the unregister_netdev when removing the device.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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