Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [5.15-rc1,5.15-rc7)
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- published 23 Jun 2022
- disclosed 23 Jun 2022
- credit Hao Sun
Introduced: 23 Jun 2022
CVE-2021-4032 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.15-rc7 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Exploiting this vulnerability is only possible on the KVM subsystem, via the kvm_free_lapic function due to mishandling of memory errors.
Details
Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.
Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.
One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.
When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.
Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:
High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.
Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm
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