Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,2.6.34)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (63rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005406
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 May 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 May 2016

CVE-2015-8324  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (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 Denial of Service (DoS). The ext4 implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34 does not properly track the initialization of certain data structures, which allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and panic) via a crafted USB device, related to the ext4_fill_super function.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1