Resource Management Errors Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,3.10.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (27th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005217
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Aug 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Aug 2013

CVE-2013-4205  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 3.10.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. Memory leak in the unshare_userns function in kernel/user_namespace.c in the Linux kernel before 3.10.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an invalid CLONE_NEWUSER unshare call.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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