Resource Exhaustion Affecting docker-common package, versions <2:1.13.1-94.gitb2f74b2.el7


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-DOCKERCOMMON-5013105
  • published27 Mar 2023
  • disclosed4 Oct 2018

Introduced: 4 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-20699  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 docker-common to version 2:1.13.1-94.gitb2f74b2.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:0487.

NVD Description

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

Docker Engine before 18.09 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (dockerd memory consumption) via a large integer in a --cpuset-mems or --cpuset-cpus value, related to daemon/daemon_unix.go, pkg/parsers/parsers.go, and pkg/sysinfo/sysinfo.go.