Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,3.1.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005292
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 May 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 May 2012

CVE-2012-0038  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 3.1.9 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound. Integer overflow in the xfs_acl_from_disk function in fs/xfs/xfs_acl.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via a filesystem with a malformed ACL, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1