Resource Exhaustion Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.13-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-6354167
  • published1 Mar 2024
  • disclosed27 Feb 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Feb 2024

CVE-2021-46968  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.13-rc1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Exhaustion due to improper handling of hardware component hot-unplug events. An attacker with local access can cause a denial of service by triggering a memory leak during the hot-unplug process of zcard and zqueue components.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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