Resource Exhaustion Affecting kernel-devel package, versions <0:3.10.0-862.11.6.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    74.81% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-KERNELDEVEL-4806235
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 6 Aug 2018

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 kernel-devel to version 0:3.10.0-862.11.6.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2018:2384.

NVD Description

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

Linux kernel versions 4.9+ can be forced to make very expensive calls to tcp_collapse_ofo_queue() and tcp_prune_ofo_queue() for every incoming packet which can lead to a denial of service.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High