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Resource Exhaustion Affecting kernel-abi-whitelists package, versions <0:3.10.0-957.el7

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    1.66% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-KERNELABIWHITELISTS-2108369
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 14 Aug 2018
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Introduced: 14 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-5391 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-400 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:7 kernel-abi-whitelists to version 0:3.10.0-957.el7 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-abi-whitelists package and not the kernel-abi-whitelists package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

The Linux kernel, versions 3.9+, is vulnerable to a denial of service attack with low rates of specially modified packets targeting IP fragment re-assembly. An attacker may cause a denial of service condition by sending specially crafted IP fragments. Various vulnerabilities in IP fragmentation have been discovered and fixed over the years. The current vulnerability (CVE-2018-5391) became exploitable in the Linux kernel with the increase of the IP fragment reassembly queue size.

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CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High