Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [2.4.23_ow2,2.6.12]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.37% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004211
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Mar 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Mar 2005

CVE-2005-0179  (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). Linux kernel 2.4.x and 2.6.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) and bypass RLIM_MEMLOCK limits via the mlockall call.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1