Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [0,kernel-5.4-rc6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004117
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Sept 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-10773  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version kernel-5.4-rc6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. A stack information leak flaw was found in s390/s390x in the Linux kernel’s memory manager functionality, where it incorrectly writes to the /proc/sys/vm/cmm_timeout file. This flaw allows a local user to see the kernel data.

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