Use of Uninitialized Resource Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.8.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006504
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed28 Nov 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Nov 2020

CVE-2020-29371  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-908  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.8.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Uninitialized Resource. An issue was discovered in romfs_dev_read in fs/romfs/storage.c in the Linux kernel before 5.8.4. Uninitialized memory leaks to userspace, aka CID-bcf85fcedfdd.

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