Error Handling Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.1.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005732
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed28 May 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 May 2019

CVE-2019-12380  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-388  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.1.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Error Handling. DISPUTED An issue was discovered in the efi subsystem in the Linux kernel through 5.1.5. phys_efi_set_virtual_address_map in arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c and efi_call_phys_prolog in arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c mishandle memory allocation failures. NOTE: This id is disputed as not being an issue because “All the code touched by the referenced commit runs only at boot, before any user processes are started. Therefore, there is no possibility for an unprivileged user to control it.”.

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