Access Restriction Bypass Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [2.2.0,2.4.17]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006262
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Jul 2002
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Jul 2002

CVE-2002-0570  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for torvalds/linux.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. The encrypted loop device in Linux kernel 2.4.10 and earlier does not authenticate the entity that is encrypting data, which allows local users to modify encrypted data without knowing the key.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1