Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,v5.16-rc6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-2933527
  • published22 Jun 2022
  • disclosed22 Jun 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Jun 2022

CVE-2022-0264  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version v5.16-rc6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure in eBPF verifier when handling internal data structures. A local attacker with the permissions to insert eBPF code to the kernel can use this to leak internal kernel memory details defeating some of the exploit mitigations in place for the kernel.

CVSS Base Scores

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