Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,6.6-rc2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-6068912
  • published17 Nov 2023
  • disclosed12 Sept 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Sep 2023

CVE-2023-6176  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.6-rc2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion'). A local user to crash the system or escalate their privileges on the system, by constructing a malicious packet with specific socket configuration.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1