Out-of-Bounds Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.13)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006135
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Sept 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14497  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.13 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. The tpacket_rcv function in net/packet/af_packet.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13 mishandles vnet headers, which might allow local users to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow, and disk and memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted system calls.

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