Use After Free Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,2.6.25.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006050
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Jul 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Jul 2008

CVE-2008-3077  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 2.6.25.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.25.10 on the x86_64 platform leaks task_struct references into the sys32_ptrace function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors, possibly a use-after-free vulnerability.

CVSS Base Scores

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