Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [4.15,5.12.14)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006681
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Jul 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Jul 2021

CVE-2021-35039  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-347  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.12.14 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature kernel/module.c in the Linux kernel before 5.12.14 mishandles Signature Verification, aka CID-0c18f29aae7c. Without CONFIG_MODULE_SIG, verification that a kernel module is signed, for loading via init_module, does not occur for a module.sig_enforce=1 command-line argument.

CVSS Base Scores

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