Out-of-Bounds Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.34% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006724
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 May 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 May 2018

CVE-2018-1000199  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (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 Out-of-Bounds. The Linux Kernel version 3.18 contains a dangerous feature vulnerability in modify_user_hw_breakpoint() that can result in crash and possibly memory corruption. This attack appear to be exploitable via local code execution and the ability to use ptrace. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in git commit f67b15037a7a50c57f72e69a6d59941ad90a0f0f.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1