Access Restriction Bypass Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [2.6_test9_cvs,2.6.15]


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-3006276
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed31 Dec 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 Dec 2005

CVE-2005-4352  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (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 Access Restriction Bypass. The securelevels implementation in NetBSD 2.1 and earlier, and Linux 2.6.15 and earlier, allows local users to bypass time setting restrictions and set the clock backwards by setting the clock ahead to the maximum unixtime value (19 Jan 2038), which then wraps around to the minimum value (13 Dec 1901), which can then be set ahead to the desired time, aka "settimeofday() time wrap."

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