Resource Management Errors Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,2.6.33.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004964
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Mar 2010
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Mar 2010

CVE-2010-0727  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 2.6.33.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. The gfs2_lock function in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34-rc1-next-20100312, and the gfs_lock function in the Linux kernel on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and 6, does not properly remove POSIX locks on files that are setgid without group-execute permission, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG and system crash) by locking a file on a (1) GFS or (2) GFS2 filesystem, and then changing this file's permissions.

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