Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,3.0.45)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004600
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Feb 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Feb 2014

CVE-2011-2909  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 3.0.45 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The do_devinfo_ioctl function in drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a copy of a short string.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1