Resource Exhaustion Affecting kernel-vanilla-base package, versions <4.12.14-150.78.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.37% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-KERNELVANILLABASE-2652874
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed7 Dec 2021

Introduced: 7 Dec 2021

CVE-2019-3874  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 kernel-vanilla-base to version 4.12.14-150.78.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

The SCTP socket buffer used by a userspace application is not accounted by the cgroups subsystem. An attacker can use this flaw to cause a denial of service attack. Kernel 3.10.x and 4.18.x branches are believed to be vulnerable.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1