Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [3.10.1,3.11)[4.18.1,4.19)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.77% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006138
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Mar 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Mar 2019

CVE-2019-3874  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 3.11, 4.19 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The SCTP socket buffer used by a userspace application is not accounted by the cgroups subsystem. An attacker can use this flaw to cause a denial of service attack. Kernel 3.10.x and 4.18.x branches are believed to be vulnerable.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1