Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [3.0,4.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005130
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed5 May 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 May 2016

CVE-2016-2062  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound. The adreno_perfcounter_query_group function in drivers/gpu/msm/adreno_perfcounter.c in the Adreno GPU driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, uses an incorrect integer data type, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow, heap-based buffer overflow, and incorrect memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted IOCTL_KGSL_PERFCOUNTER_QUERY ioctl call.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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