Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,3.15.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004770
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Jun 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Jun 2014

CVE-2014-0206  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 3.15.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. Array index error in the aio_read_events_ring function in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel through 3.15.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a large head value.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1