Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,6.3-rc1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-5920421
  • published27 Sept 2023
  • disclosed25 Sept 2023
  • creditKyle Zeng

Introduced: 25 Sep 2023

CVE-2023-42755  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-823  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.3-rc1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset via the rsvp_classify() function. An attacker can cause a system crash by exploiting a wild pointer access issue.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1