Out-of-Bounds Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004718
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed8 Feb 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Feb 2016

CVE-2013-4312  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. The Linux kernel before 4.4.1 allows local users to bypass file-descriptor limits and cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by sending each descriptor over a UNIX socket before closing it, related to net/unix/af_unix.c and net/unix/garbage.c.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1