Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting kernel-doc package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-KERNELDOC-1566254
  • published2 Aug 2021
  • disclosed2 Aug 2021

Introduced: 2 Aug 2021

CVE-2021-3669  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 kernel-doc.

NVD Description

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

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. Measuring usage of the shared memory does not scale with large shared memory segment counts which could lead to resource exhaustion and DoS.

CVSS Scores

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