Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting kernel-docs package, versions <4.12.14-197.4.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.54% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-KERNELDOCS-3257530
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed18 Jun 2019

Introduced: 18 Jun 2019

CVE-2019-3882  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 kernel-docs to version 4.12.14-197.4.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-docs package and not the kernel-docs package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 relevant fixed versions and status.

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's vfio interface implementation that permits violation of the user's locked memory limit. If a device is bound to a vfio driver, such as vfio-pci, and the local attacker is administratively granted ownership of the device, it may cause a system memory exhaustion and thus a denial of service (DoS). Versions 3.10, 4.14 and 4.18 are vulnerable.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1