Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-headers (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-KERNELHEADERS-5154961
- published26 Jul 2021
- disclosed13 Jul 2016
Introduced: 13 Jul 2016
CVE-2016-6213 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-headers package and not the kernel-headers package as distributed by RHEL.
fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel before 4.9 does not restrict how many mounts may exist in a mount namespace, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and deadlock) via MS_BIND mount system calls, as demonstrated by a loop that triggers exponential growth in the number of mounts.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91754
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d29216842a85c7970c536108e093963f02714498
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1356471
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d29216842a85c7970c536108e093963f02714498
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6213
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/13/8
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842