Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [2.4.1,2.4.19]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.46% (37th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004254
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed31 Dec 2002
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 Dec 2002

CVE-2002-1963  (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 2.4.1 through 2.4.19 sets root's NR_RESERVED_FILES limit to 10 files, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by opening 10 setuid binaries.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1