Access Restriction Bypass Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,2.6.13.1)


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-3005335
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Sept 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Sep 2005

CVE-2005-2492  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 2.6.13.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. The raw_sendmsg function in the Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.13.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (change hardware state) or read from arbitrary memory via crafted input.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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