Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [2.0.0,2.0.39][2.1.0,2.2.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004916
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed22 Jun 1998
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Jun 1998

CVE-1999-1442  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 2.2.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Bug in AMD K6 processor on Linux 2.0.x and 2.1.x kernels allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a particular sequence of instructions, possibly related to accessing addresses outside of segments.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1