Out-of-Bounds Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.2.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006460
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Aug 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Aug 2019

CVE-2019-15117  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.2.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds parse_audio_mixer_unit in sound/usb/mixer.c in the Linux kernel through 5.2.9 mishandles a short descriptor, leading to out-of-bounds memory access.

CVSS Scores

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