Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.0.2)


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-3004610
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 May 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 May 2016

CVE-2015-4176  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.0.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel before 4.0.2 does not properly support mount connectivity, which allows local users to read arbitrary files by leveraging user-namespace root access for deletion of a file or directory.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1