Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,3.19.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004850
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Mar 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Mar 2016

CVE-2016-0823  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 3.19.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The pagemap_open function in fs/proc/task_mmu.c in the Linux kernel before 3.19.3, as used in Android 6.0.1 before 2016-03-01, allows local users to obtain sensitive physical-address information by reading a pagemap file, aka Android internal bug 25739721.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1