Use After Free Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.19.21)[4.19.22,4.20.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004606
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed1 Apr 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Apr 2019

CVE-2019-8956  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.19.21, 4.20.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. In the Linux Kernel before versions 4.20.8 and 4.19.21 a use-after-free error in the "sctp_sendmsg()" function (net/sctp/socket.c) when handling SCTP_SENDALL flag can be exploited to corrupt memory.

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