Off-by-one Error Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,3.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005462
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed28 Jul 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Jul 2011

CVE-2011-2695  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-193  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 3.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Off-by-one Error. Multiple off-by-one errors in the ext4 subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.0-rc5 allow local users to cause a denial of service (BUG_ON and system crash) by accessing a sparse file in extent format with a write operation involving a block number corresponding to the largest possible 32-bit unsigned integer.

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