Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,3.1.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006255
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed20 Feb 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Feb 2020

CVE-2011-4915  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 3.1.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel through 3.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive keystroke information via access to /proc/interrupts.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1