Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [2.4.23_ow2,2.6.9]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004129
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Jan 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Jan 2005

CVE-2004-1016  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for torvalds/linux.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The scm_send function in the scm layer for Linux kernel 2.4.x up to 2.4.28, and 2.6.x up to 2.6.9, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via crafted auxiliary messages that are passed to the sendmsg function, which causes a deadlock condition.

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