Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [2.4.23_ow2,2.6.12]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.77% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004364
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 May 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 May 2005

CVE-2005-1263  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (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 Arbitrary Code Execution. The elf_core_dump function in binfmt_elf.c for Linux kernel 2.x.x to 2.2.27-rc2, 2.4.x to 2.4.31-pre1, and 2.6.x to 2.6.12-rc4 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via an ELF binary that, in certain conditions involving the create_elf_tables function, causes a negative length argument to pass a signed integer comparison, leading to a buffer overflow.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1