Access of Uninitialized Pointer Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.13.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005875
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed8 Aug 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Aug 2021

CVE-2021-38205  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-824  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.13.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access of Uninitialized Pointer drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_emaclite.c in the Linux kernel before 5.13.3 makes it easier for attackers to defeat an ASLR protection mechanism because it prints a kernel pointer (i.e., the real IOMEM pointer).

CVSS Base Scores

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