Resource Management Errors Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,3.12.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004636
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed1 Apr 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Apr 2014

CVE-2013-7348  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 3.12.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. Double free vulnerability in the ioctx_alloc function in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving an error condition in the aio_setup_ring function.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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