Out-of-bounds Write Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005704
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed20 Sept 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Sep 2019

CVE-2019-14816  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. There is heap-based buffer overflow in kernel, all versions up to, excluding 5.3, in the marvell wifi chip driver in Linux kernel, that allows local users to cause a denial of service(system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.

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