NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (33rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004970
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 May 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 May 2020

CVE-2019-20806  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.2. There is a NULL pointer dereference in tw5864_handle_frame() in drivers/media/pci/tw5864/tw5864-video.c, which may cause denial of service, aka CID-2e7682ebfc75.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1