Resource Management Errors Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,3.14.2)


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-3006269
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Oct 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Oct 2014

CVE-2014-7283  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 3.14.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. The xfs_da3_fixhashpath function in fs/xfs/xfs_da_btree.c in the xfs implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.14.2 does not properly compare btree hash values, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (filesystem corruption, and OOPS or panic) via operations on directories that have hash collisions, as demonstrated by rmdir operations.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1