Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.11.11)


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-3005277
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed30 Mar 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Mar 2021

CVE-2021-29647  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.11.11 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.11.11. qrtr_recvmsg in net/qrtr/qrtr.c allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory because of a partially uninitialized data structure, aka CID-50535249f624.

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CVSS Base Scores

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