Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,2.2.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004426
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Dec 1998
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Dec 1998

CVE-1999-1285  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 2.2.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Linux 2.1.132 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by reading a large buffer from a random device (e.g. /dev/urandom), which cannot be interrupted until the read has completed.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1