Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package realtime-kernel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-REALTIMEKERNEL-9859213
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed1 Jan 2016

Introduced: 1 Jan 2016

CVE-2016-2847  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream realtime-kernel package and not the realtime-kernel package as distributed by RHEL.

fs/pipe.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5 does not limit the amount of unread data in pipes, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by creating many pipes with non-default sizes.

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