Access Restriction Bypass Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,2.6.33)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004927
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed21 May 2010
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 May 2010

CVE-2010-1446  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 2.6.33 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass arch/powerpc/mm/fsl_booke_mmu.c in KGDB in the Linux kernel 2.6.30 and other versions before 2.6.33, when running on PowerPC, does not properly perform a security check for access to a kernel page, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary kernel memory, related to Fsl booke.

CVSS Base Scores

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