Resource Exhaustion Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [5.10,5.10.37)[5.11.0,5.11.21)[5.12.0,5.12.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-6354174
  • published1 Mar 2024
  • disclosed28 Feb 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Feb 2024

CVE-2021-47053  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.10.37, 5.11.21, 5.12.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Exhaustion due to improper handling of memory allocation in the sun8i-ss driver. An attacker with local access can cause a denial of service condition by triggering a memory leak.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1