Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,3.15.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006319
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Jul 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Jul 2014

CVE-2014-4656  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 3.15.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound. Multiple integer overflows in sound/core/control.c in the ALSA control implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.15.2 allow local users to cause a denial of service by leveraging /dev/snd/controlCX access, related to (1) index values in the snd_ctl_add function and (2) numid values in the snd_ctl_remove_numid_conflict function.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1