Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,2.6.0]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004189
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Sept 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Sep 2005

CVE-2005-3053  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for torvalds/linux.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The sys_set_mempolicy function in mempolicy.c in Linux kernel 2.6.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel BUG()) via a negative first argument.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1