Out-of-bounds Read Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.8.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004422
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Sept 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-14314  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.8.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. A memory out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the Linux kernel before 5.9-rc2 with the ext3/ext4 file system, in the way it accesses a directory with broken indexing. This flaw allows a local user to crash the system if the directory exists. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

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