Use of Uninitialized Resource Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.1.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004913
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 May 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 May 2019

CVE-2019-11833  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-908  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.1.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Uninitialized Resource fs/ext4/extents.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.2 does not zero out the unused memory region in the extent tree block, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading uninitialized data in the filesystem.

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