Out-of-Bounds Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.10.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006300
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Apr 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-8063  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.10.12 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/cxusb.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x and 4.10.x before 4.10.12 interacts incorrectly with the CONFIG_VMAP_STACK option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging use of more than one virtual page for a DMA scatterlist.

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