Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [2.4.10,2.4.19]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.37% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005981
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 Feb 2003
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Feb 2003

CVE-2003-0018  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for torvalds/linux.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Linux kernel 2.4.10 through 2.4.21-pre4 does not properly handle the O_DIRECT feature, which allows local attackers with write privileges to read portions of previously deleted files, or cause file system corruption.

References

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