Out-of-bounds Write Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [4.0-rc1,5.13-rc1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-2936540
  • published29 Jun 2022
  • disclosed28 Jun 2022
  • creditAdam Zabrocki, Alexander Matrosov, Alexander Tereshkin, Aksym Bazalii, Nikola Livic

Introduced: 28 Jun 2022

CVE-2021-4157  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.13-rc1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write via the NFS subsystem due to the way users use mirroring (replication of files with NFS).

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1