Out-of-Bounds Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.2.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006150
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 Oct 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Oct 2015

CVE-2015-5283  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.2.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. The sctp_init function in net/sctp/protocol.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2.3 has an incorrect sequence of protocol-initialization steps, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic or memory corruption) by creating SCTP sockets before all of the steps have finished.

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