Out-of-bounds Write Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [3.0,4.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.61% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006201
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed30 Aug 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Aug 2016

CVE-2016-5342  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. Heap-based buffer overflow in the wcnss_wlan_write function in drivers/net/wireless/wcnss/wcnss_wlan.c in the wcnss_wlan device driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by writing to /dev/wcnss_wlan with an unexpected amount of data.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1