NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.14.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006232
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Feb 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Feb 2018

CVE-2018-7492  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.14.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. A NULL pointer dereference was found in the net/rds/rdma.c __rds_rdma_map() function in the Linux kernel before 4.14.7 allowing local attackers to cause a system panic and a denial-of-service, related to RDS_GET_MR and RDS_GET_MR_FOR_DEST.

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