Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.2.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004623
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Dec 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Dec 2019

CVE-2019-19535  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.2.9 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. In the Linux kernel before 5.2.9, there is an info-leak bug that can be caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_fd.c driver, aka CID-30a8beeb3042.

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