Out-of-Bounds Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,3.18.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (26th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005974
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed31 Aug 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 Aug 2015

CVE-2014-9728  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 3.18.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. The UDF filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2 does not validate certain lengths, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read and system crash) via a crafted filesystem image, related to fs/udf/inode.c and fs/udf/symlink.c.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1