Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.8.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006008
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Sept 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-25284  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-732  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.8.9 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The rbd block device driver in drivers/block/rbd.c in the Linux kernel through 5.8.9 used incomplete permission checking for access to rbd devices, which could be leveraged by local attackers to map or unmap rbd block devices, aka CID-f44d04e696fe.

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CVSS Base Scores

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