NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005494
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Oct 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Oct 2016

CVE-2016-6327  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) by using an ABORT_TASK command to abort a device write operation.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1