Resource Exhaustion Affecting docker.io package, versions <18.09.1+dfsg1-2


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.1% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-DOCKERIO-516705
  • published 12 Jan 2019
  • disclosed 12 Jan 2019

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 docker.io to version 18.09.1+dfsg1-2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream docker.io package and not the docker.io package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

Docker Engine before 18.09 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (dockerd memory consumption) via a large integer in a --cpuset-mems or --cpuset-cpus value, related to daemon/daemon_unix.go, pkg/parsers/parsers.go, and pkg/sysinfo/sysinfo.go.