Access Restriction Bypass Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [2.6.10,2.6.13]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004269
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Oct 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Oct 2005

CVE-2005-3179  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (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 Access Restriction Bypass drm.c in Linux kernel 2.6.10 to 2.6.13 creates a debug file in sysfs with world-readable and world-writable permissions, which allows local users to enable DRM debugging and obtain sensitive information.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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