Out-of-Bounds Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.5.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006715
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Mar 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-10942  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.5.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. In the Linux kernel before 5.5.8, get_raw_socket in drivers/vhost/net.c lacks validation of an sk_family field, which might allow attackers to trigger kernel stack corruption via crafted system calls.

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