<p>Upgrade <code>RHEL:8</code> <code>kernel-zfcpdump-devel</code> to version 0:4.18.0-372.9.1.el8 or higher.<br>This issue was patched in <code>RHSA-2022:1988</code>.</p>

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting kernel-zfcpdump-devel package, versions <0:4.18.0-372.9.1.el8

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Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-KERNELZFCPDUMPDEVEL-4268927
published 2 Aug 2021
disclosed 2 Aug 2021

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Introduced: 2 Aug 2021

CVE-2021-3669 Open this link in a new tab CWE-770 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 kernel-zfcpdump-devel to version 0:4.18.0-372.9.1.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2022:1988.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-zfcpdump-devel package and not the kernel-zfcpdump-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 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.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1

Attack Vector (AV)

Local
Attack Complexity (AC)

Low
Privileges Required (PR)

Low
User Interaction (UI)

None

Scope (S)

Unchanged

Confidentiality (C)

None
Integrity (I)

None
Availability (A)

High

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting kernel-zfcpdump-devel package, versions <0:4.18.0-372.9.1.el8

Severity

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating