Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,2.6.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.96% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004113
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Dec 2004
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Dec 2004

CVE-2004-1333  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 2.6.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Integer overflow in the vc_resize function in the Linux kernel 2.4 and 2.6 before 2.6.10 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel crash) via a short new screen value, which leads to a buffer overflow.

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