Out-of-Bounds Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,3.11.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005001
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Sept 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Sep 2013

CVE-2013-2899  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 3.11.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c in the Human Interface Device (HID) subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when CONFIG_HID_PICOLCD is enabled, allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) via a crafted device.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1