Stack-based Buffer Overflow Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,6.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.02% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3167922
  • published13 Dec 2022
  • disclosed9 Dec 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Dec 2022

CVE-2022-4378  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-121  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Stack-based Buffer Overflow in SYSCTL subsystem, due to improper user input validation in the functions do_proc_dointvec and proc_skip_spaces.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1