Buffer Overflow Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.2.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005757
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Aug 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Aug 2019

CVE-2019-15118  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.2.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow check_input_term in sound/usb/mixer.c in the Linux kernel through 5.2.9 mishandles recursion, leading to kernel stack exhaustion.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1