Double Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package torvalds/linux  (opens in a new tab)


Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Attacked
EPSS
6.59% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-7644400
  • published7 Aug 2024
  • disclosed6 Aug 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Aug 2024

CVE-2021-22600  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-415  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.11-rc1 or higher.

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Double Free via the function packet_set_ring() in net/packet/af_packet.c.

Note

The upstream Linux kernel is not affected.