Buffer Overflow Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,3.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005915
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 May 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 May 2012

CVE-2011-3353  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 3.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow. Buffer overflow in the fuse_notify_inval_entry function in fs/fuse/dev.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG_ON and system crash) by leveraging the ability to mount a FUSE filesystem.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1