Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,2.6.0]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004191
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed4 Aug 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Aug 2005

CVE-2005-2456  (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). Array index overflow in the xfrm_sk_policy_insert function in xfrm_user.c in Linux kernel 2.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (oops or deadlock) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a p->dir value that is larger than XFRM_POLICY_OUT, which is used as an index in the sock->sk_policy array.

CVSS Base Scores

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