Improper Action Name Cleanup Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.10.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006718
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Apr 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Apr 2021

CVE-2020-36322  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-459  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.10.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Action Name Cleanup. An issue was discovered in the FUSE filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 5.10.6, aka CID-5d069dbe8aaf. fuse_do_getattr() calls make_bad_inode() in inappropriate situations, causing a system crash. NOTE: the original fix for this vulnerability was incomplete, and its incompleteness is tracked as CVE-2021-28950.

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