Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [0,]


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-6209261
  • published29 Jan 2024
  • disclosed23 Jan 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Jan 2024

CVE-2024-23850  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-703  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions due to an assertion failure in the btrfs_get_root_ref function. An attacker can cause a system crash by reading a subvolume prematurely after its root item has been inserted during subvolume creation.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1