Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,2.6.31.4)


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-3004725
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed20 Oct 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Oct 2009

CVE-2009-2910  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 2.6.31.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S in the Linux kernel before 2.6.31.4 on the x86_64 platform does not clear certain kernel registers before a return to user mode, which allows local users to read register values from an earlier process by switching an ia32 process to 64-bit mode.

CVSS Base Scores

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