Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting linux-virt-doc package, versions <6.12.10-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-MINIMOSLATEST-LINUXVIRTDOC-13311695
  • published6 Oct 2025
  • disclosed26 Aug 2022

Introduced: 26 Aug 2022

CVE-2021-3669  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Minimos:latest linux-virt-doc to version 6.12.10-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream linux-virt-doc package and not the linux-virt-doc package as distributed by Minimos. See How to fix? for Minimos:latest 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 Base Scores

version 3.1