[UPDATE] Linux Kernel: Multiple Vulnerabilities Enable Denial of Service
A BSI Warn- und Informationsdienst (WID): Schwachstellen-Informationen (Security Advisories) ·
Admiralty grading (A–F · 1–6)
Source reliability
- A Completely reliable
- B Usually reliable
- C Fairly reliable
- D Not usually reliable
- E Unreliable
- F Cannot be judged
Information credibility
- 1 Confirmed
- 2 Probably true
- 3 Possibly true
- 4 Doubtful
- 5 Improbable
- 6 Cannot be judged
NATO Admiralty (AJP-2.1) grades confidence, independent of the risk score. Cross-source corroboration isn't tracked for non-CVE news, so single-source items are capped at a lower credibility number; a low number does not imply low quality.
Key insight
The alert highlights the need for Linux kernel patching but provides little concrete prioritization help without CVE IDs or version details.
Description
The BSI Warning and Information Service reports multiple vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel that a local attacker can exploit for denial-of-service attacks. The advisory, marked as an update, contains no CVE IDs and no further details on affected kernel versions. No exploit or active exploitation is mentioned. The described attacks require local access to the affected system.
Risk score
- cvss base
- 0.00
- kev bonus
- 0.00
- epss bonus
- 0.00
- poc bonus
- 0.00
- raw before weight
- 0.00
- industry weight
- 1.10
- freshness factor
- 1.00
- exploitability factor
- 1.00
- days old
- 0.00
- vendor mismatch penalty
- 0.00
Path: operational