Access Restriction Bypass Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,2.6.34)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005241
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Jan 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Jan 2011

CVE-2010-3448  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 2.6.34 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34 on ThinkPad devices, when the X.Org X server is used, does not properly restrict access to the video output control state, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via a (1) read or (2) write operation.

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