Out-of-Bounds Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,3.11.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006229
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Nov 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Nov 2013

CVE-2013-4512  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 3.11.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. Buffer overflow in the exitcode_proc_write function in arch/um/kernel/exitcode.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12 allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging root privileges for a write operation.

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CVSS Base Scores

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