Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.11.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005965
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 Jun 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Jun 2017

CVE-2017-1000380  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.11.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11.5 is vulnerable to a data race in the ALSA /dev/snd/timer driver resulting in local users being able to read information belonging to other users, i.e., uninitialized memory contents may be disclosed when a read and an ioctl happen at the same time.

CVSS Base Scores

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