Out-of-bounds Read Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [5.17-rc1,6.3-rc4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-5291200
  • published27 Mar 2023
  • disclosed27 Mar 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Mar 2023

CVE-2023-28866  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.3-rc4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read in net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c, which allows access to the last element of stage[].func which should have been invalid.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1