Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.13.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006003
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed4 Oct 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-14991  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.13.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The sg_ioctl function in drivers/scsi/sg.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.4 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized kernel heap-memory locations via an SG_GET_REQUEST_TABLE ioctl call for /dev/sg0.

CVSS Base Scores

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