Resource Exhaustion Affecting kernel-kdump package, versions <0:2.6.32-642.el6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-KERNELKDUMP-1506488
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed19 Jan 2016

Introduced: 19 Jan 2016

CVE-2013-4312  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:6 kernel-kdump to version 0:2.6.32-642.el6 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2016:0855.

NVD Description

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

The Linux kernel before 4.4.1 allows local users to bypass file-descriptor limits and cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by sending each descriptor over a UNIX socket before closing it, related to net/unix/af_unix.c and net/unix/garbage.c.

CVSS Scores

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