Improper Validation of Array Index Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [4.19,4.19.25)[4.20,4.20.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.54% (67th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005908
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Feb 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Feb 2019

CVE-2019-9162  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-129  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.19.25, 4.20.12 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Validation of Array Index. In the Linux kernel before 4.20.12, net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic_main.c in the SNMP NAT module has insufficient ASN.1 length checks (aka an array index error), making out-of-bounds read and write operations possible, leading to an OOPS or local privilege escalation. This affects snmp_version and snmp_helper.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1