Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [2.2.12,2.3.99]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004188
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Mar 2000
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Mar 2000

CVE-2000-0227  (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 Linux 2.2.x kernel does not restrict the number of Unix domain sockets as defined by the wmem_max parameter, which allows local users to cause a denial of service by requesting a large number of sockets.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1