Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,2.0.34]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004826
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed30 Jun 1998
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Jun 1998

CVE-1999-1441  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for torvalds/linux.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Linux 2.0.34 does not properly prevent users from sending SIGIO signals to arbitrary processes, which allows local users to cause a denial of service by sending SIGIO to processes that do not catch it.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1