Resource Management Errors Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.4.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (14th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005710
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Apr 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Apr 2016

CVE-2016-2847  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.4.9 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors fs/pipe.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5 does not limit the amount of unread data in pipes, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by creating many pipes with non-default sizes.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1