Buffer Overflow Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [2.4.23_ow2,2.6.5]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006330
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed31 Dec 2004
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 Dec 2004

CVE-2004-2607  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (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 Buffer Overflow. A numeric casting discrepancy in sdla_xfer in Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.5 and 2.4 up to 2.4.29-rc1 allows local users to read portions of kernel memory via a large len argument, which is received as an int but cast to a short, which prevents a read loop from filling a buffer.

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CVSS Base Scores

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