Resource Management Errors Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.14.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006394
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Feb 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Feb 2018

CVE-2017-18204  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.14.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. The ocfs2_setattr function in fs/ocfs2/file.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) via DIO requests.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1