Use After Free Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [3.0,4.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.46% (64th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006123
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Aug 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Aug 2016

CVE-2015-0568  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. Use-after-free vulnerability in the msm_set_crop function in drivers/media/video/msm/msm_camera.c in the MSM-Camera driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via an application that makes a crafted ioctl call.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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