Type Confusion Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.1% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006667
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Apr 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Apr 2020

CVE-2019-15792  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-843  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for torvalds/linux.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Type Confusion. In shiftfs, a non-upstream patch to the Linux kernel included in the Ubuntu 5.0 and 5.3 kernel series, shiftfs_btrfs_ioctl_fd_replace() calls fdget(oldfd), then without further checks passes the resulting file* into shiftfs_real_fdget(), which casts file->private_data, a void* that points to a filesystem-dependent type, to a "struct shiftfs_file_info *". As the private_data is not required to be a pointer, an attacker can use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.

CVSS Base Scores

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