Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.8.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005137
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed28 Nov 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Nov 2016

CVE-2016-9084  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.8.12 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.11 misuses the kzalloc function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (integer overflow) or have unspecified other impact by leveraging access to a vfio PCI device file.

CVSS Base Scores

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