Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.2.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005018
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 Oct 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Oct 2015

CVE-2015-6937  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.2.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The __rds_conn_create function in net/rds/connection.c in the Linux kernel through 4.2.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by using a socket that was not properly bound.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1