Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.1.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.45% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005932
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Jul 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Jul 2015

CVE-2015-4692  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.1.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The kvm_apic_has_events function in arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h in the Linux kernel through 4.1.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging /dev/kvm access for an ioctl call.

CVSS Base Scores

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