Resource Exhaustion Affecting kernel-debug-devel package, versions <0:2.6.32-279.el6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-KERNELDEBUGDEVEL-1442940
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed25 Feb 2011

Introduced: 25 Feb 2011

CVE-2011-1083  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:6 kernel-debug-devel to version 0:2.6.32-279.el6 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2012:0862.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-debug-devel package and not the kernel-debug-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

The epoll implementation in the Linux kernel 2.6.37.2 and earlier does not properly traverse a tree of epoll file descriptors, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted application that makes epoll_create and epoll_ctl system calls.

CVSS Scores

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