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Resource Exhaustion Affecting kernel-uek-debug package, versions <0:2.6.39-400.298.1.el5uek

Severity

 Recommended
high

Based on Oracle Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.06% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ORACLE5-KERNELUEKDEBUG-2522809
  • published 10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed 22 Nov 2017
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Introduced: 22 Nov 2017

CVE-2017-12190 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-400 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:5 kernel-uek-debug to version 0:2.6.39-400.298.1.el5uek or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2017-3658.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-uek-debug package and not the kernel-uek-debug package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:5 relevant fixed versions and status.

The bio_map_user_iov and bio_unmap_user functions in block/bio.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.8 do unbalanced refcounting when a SCSI I/O vector has small consecutive buffers belonging to the same page. The bio_add_pc_page function merges them into one, but the page reference is never dropped. This causes a memory leak and possible system lockup (exploitable against the host OS by a guest OS user, if a SCSI disk is passed through to a virtual machine) due to an out-of-memory condition.

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