Homepage

Resource Exhaustion Affecting kernel-headers package, versions <0:3.10.0-693.el7

Severity

 Recommended
high

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications

Snyk Learn

Learn about Resource Exhaustion vulnerabilities in an interactive lesson.

Start learning
  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE7-KERNELHEADERS-2514990
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed28 Dec 2016
Report a new vulnerability Found a mistake?

Introduced: 28 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-9685  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:7 kernel-headers to version 0:3.10.0-693.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2017-1842.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-headers package and not the kernel-headers package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Multiple memory leaks in error paths in fs/xfs/xfs_attr_list.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.1 allow local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via crafted XFS filesystem operations.

References