Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [2.0,2.3.0]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.74% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004362
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 Feb 1999
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Feb 1999

CVE-1999-0460  (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). Buffer overflow in Linux autofs module through long directory names allows local users to perform a denial of service.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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