Access Restriction Bypass Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004698
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed21 Sept 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-16597  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.8. Incorrect access checking in overlayfs mounts could be used by local attackers to modify or truncate files in the underlying filesystem.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1