CVE-2016-2847
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Apr 27, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Mar 6, 2016
Description
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- SUSE-SU-2016:1690vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1313428
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=759c01142a5d0f364a462346168a56de28a80f52
- USN-2967-1vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2016:1696vendor-advisory
- USN-2949-1vendor-advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
- 83870vdb-entry
- DSA-3503vendor-advisory
- USN-2947-3vendor-advisory
- USN-2967-2vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20160301 CVE request -- linux kernel: pipe: limit the per-user amount of pages allocated in pipesmailing-list
- RHSA-2016:2584vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2016:2574vendor-advisory
- USN-2947-2vendor-advisory
- USN-2947-1vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2016:1707vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2016:1672vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/759c01142a5d0f364a462346168a56de28a80f52
- USN-2946-2vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1382vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2016:2074vendor-advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinoct2016-3090547.html
- RHSA-2017:0217vendor-advisory
- USN-2948-1vendor-advisory
- USN-2946-1vendor-advisory
- USN-2948-2vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2016:1937vendor-advisory
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