Out-of-Bounds Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005916
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Aug 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Aug 2021

CVE-2021-3635  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. A flaw was found in the Linux kernel netfilter implementation in versions prior to 5.5-rc7. A user with root (CAP_SYS_ADMIN) access is able to panic the system when issuing netfilter netflow commands.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1