Resource Exhaustion Affecting docker.io package, versions <18.09.2-0ubuntu1~18.10.1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.23% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1810-DOCKERIO-301897
  • published12 Jan 2019
  • disclosed12 Jan 2019

Introduced: 12 Jan 2019

CVE-2018-20699  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:18.10 docker.io to version 18.09.2-0ubuntu1~18.10.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream docker.io package and not the docker.io package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.10 relevant fixed versions and status.

Docker Engine before 18.09 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (dockerd memory consumption) via a large integer in a --cpuset-mems or --cpuset-cpus value, related to daemon/daemon_unix.go, pkg/parsers/parsers.go, and pkg/sysinfo/sysinfo.go.