Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.0.15)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005434
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 May 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 May 2019

CVE-2019-11884  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.0.15 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The do_hidp_sock_ioctl function in net/bluetooth/hidp/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 5.0.15 allows a local user to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a HIDPCONNADD command, because a name field may not end with a '\0' character.

CVSS Base Scores

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