Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [2.6.32,4.15)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.31% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005026
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Dec 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-1000407  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-754  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.15 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions. The Linux Kernel 2.6.32 and later are affected by a denial of service, by flooding the diagnostic port 0x80 an exception can be triggered leading to a kernel panic.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1