Use After Free Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,2.6.37)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004549
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed22 Nov 2010
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Nov 2010

CVE-2010-4169  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 2.6.37 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. Use-after-free vulnerability in mm/mprotect.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 allows local users to cause a denial of service via vectors involving an mprotect system call.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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