Resource Exhaustion Affecting docker-engine package, versions <0:18.03.1.ol-0.0.14.el7


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.23% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE7-DOCKERENGINE-2545882
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed12 Jan 2019

Introduced: 12 Jan 2019

CVE-2018-20699  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:7 docker-engine to version 0:18.03.1.ol-0.0.14.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2019-4597.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream docker-engine package and not the docker-engine package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:7 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.