Resource Management Errors Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.10.13)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.76% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006188
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 May 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 May 2017

CVE-2017-7472  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.10.13 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.10.13 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a series of KEY_REQKEY_DEFL_THREAD_KEYRING keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring calls.

CVSS Base Scores

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