Buffer Overflow Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,2.6.11)


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-3006127
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 May 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 May 2005

CVE-2005-0532  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 2.6.11 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow. The reiserfs_copy_from_user_to_file_region function in reiserfs/file.c for Linux kernel 2.6.10 and 2.6.11 before 2.6.11-rc4, when running on 64-bit architectures, may allow local users to trigger a buffer overflow as a result of casting discrepancies between size_t and int data types.

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