Out-of-bounds Read Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.14.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006029
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed18 Dec 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-17741  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.14.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. The KVM implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.14.7 allows attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory, aka a write_mmio stack-based out-of-bounds read, related to arch/x86/kvm/x86.c and include/trace/events/kvm.h.

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