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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting kernel-zfcpdump-devel package, versions <0:4.18.0-372.9.1.el8

Severity

 Recommended
high

Based on CentOS security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS8-KERNELZFCPDUMPDEVEL-1970330
  • published 2 Aug 2021
  • disclosed 2 Aug 2021
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Introduced: 2 Aug 2021

CVE-2021-3669 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-770 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:8 kernel-zfcpdump-devel to version 0:4.18.0-372.9.1.el8 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-zfcpdump-devel package and not the kernel-zfcpdump-devel package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. Measuring usage of the shared memory does not scale with large shared memory segment counts which could lead to resource exhaustion and DoS.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

5.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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Red Hat

5.5 medium
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SUSE

5.5 medium