Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,6.7-rc4)


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-6102837
  • published7 Dec 2023
  • disclosed30 Nov 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Nov 2023

CVE-2023-6560  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-823  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.7-rc4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset in the __io_uaddr_map() function, allowing an attacker to access noncontiguous memory pages without detection.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1