CVE-2001-1399 Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,2.2.20)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006085
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 Apr 2001
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Apr 2001

CVE-2001-1399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 2.2.20 or higher.

Overview

Certain operations in Linux kernel before 2.2.19 on the x86 architecture copy the wrong number of bytes, which might allow attackers to modify memory, aka "User access asm bug on x86."

References

CVSS Base Scores

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