Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.17.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006221
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 Jul 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-13053  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.17.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound. The alarm_timer_nsleep function in kernel/time/alarmtimer.c in the Linux kernel through 4.17.3 has an integer overflow via a large relative timeout because ktime_add_safe is not used.

CVSS Base Scores

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