Memory Leak Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.11.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (7th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006643
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 Apr 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Apr 2021

CVE-2021-30002  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.11.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Memory Leak. An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.11.3 when a webcam device exists. video_usercopy in drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c has a memory leak for large arguments, aka CID-fb18802a338b.

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CVSS Base Scores

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