Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,2.4.19)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006367
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed31 Dec 2002
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 Dec 2002

CVE-2002-1571  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 2.4.19 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The linux 2.4 kernel before 2.4.19 assumes that the fninit instruction clears all registers, which could lead to an information leak on processors that do not clear all relevant SSE registers.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1