Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting containerd package, versions <1.2.5-5.13.1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.33% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-CONTAINERD-2753064
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed14 May 2019

Introduced: 14 May 2019

CVE-2019-6486  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 containerd to version 1.2.5-5.13.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream containerd package and not the containerd package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

Go before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.5 mishandles P-521 and P-384 elliptic curves, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) or possibly conduct ECDH private key recovery attacks.