Incorrect Calculation Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.9.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005482
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Jul 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Jul 2018

CVE-2017-2618  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-682  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.9.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Calculation. A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handling of clearing SELinux attributes on /proc/pid/attr files before 4.9.10. An empty (null) write to this file can crash the system by causing the system to attempt to access unmapped kernel memory.

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