Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.2.14)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.91% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006528
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Sept 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Sep 2019

CVE-2019-16714  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.2.14 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. In the Linux kernel before 5.2.14, rds6_inc_info_copy in net/rds/recv.c allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory because tos and flags fields are not initialized.

CVSS Base Scores

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