Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,3.11.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005388
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Nov 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Nov 2013

CVE-2013-4516  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 3.11.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The mp_get_count function in drivers/staging/sb105x/sb_pci_mp.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a TIOCGICOUNT ioctl call.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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