Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.15.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004901
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Aug 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-7754  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-532  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.15.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File. The aoedisk_debugfs_show function in drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c in the Linux kernel through 4.16.4rc4 allows local users to obtain sensitive address information by reading "ffree: " lines in a debugfs file.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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