Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,3.2.24)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.02% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005718
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Oct 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Oct 2012

CVE-2012-3375  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 3.2.24 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The epoll_ctl system call in fs/eventpoll.c in the Linux kernel before 3.2.24 does not properly handle ELOOP errors in EPOLL_CTL_ADD operations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (file-descriptor consumption and system crash) via a crafted application that attempts to create a circular epoll dependency. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2011-1083.

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