Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,2.6.11)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.4% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005862
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed31 Dec 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 Dec 2005

CVE-2005-0136  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 2.6.11 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The Linux kernel before 2.6.11 on the Itanium IA64 platform has certain "ptrace corner cases" that allow local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted syscalls, possibly related to MCA/INIT, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-1761.

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