Resource Management Errors Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,2.6.27.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (34th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005844
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Mar 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Mar 2008

CVE-2008-1514  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 2.6.27.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors arch/s390/kernel/ptrace.c in Linux kernel 2.6.9, and other versions before 2.6.27-rc6, on s390 platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via the user-area-padding test from the ptrace testsuite in 31-bit mode, which triggers an invalid dereference.

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