Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.18-rc1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-6155021
  • published12 Jan 2024
  • disclosed12 Jan 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Jan 2024

CVE-2022-48619  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.18-rc1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') due to an event code falling outside of a bitmap in input_set_capability, leading to a system panic. An attacker can cause a denial of service by triggering this condition.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1