Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,2.2.20)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005619
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 Apr 2001
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Apr 2001

CVE-2001-1392  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 2.2.20 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The Linux kernel before 2.2.19 does not have unregister calls for (1) CPUID and (2) MSR drivers, which could cause a DoS (crash) by unloading and reloading the drivers.

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