CVE-2021-20265

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Mar 10, 2021
Updated: Aug 3, 2024
Reserved: Dec 17, 2020

Description

A flaw was found in the way memory resources were freed in the unix_stream_recvmsg function in the Linux kernel when a signal was pending. This flaw allows an unprivileged local user to crash the system by exhausting available memory. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

CWE-400

Affected Products

Product	Versions
kerneln/a	Linux kernel 4.5-rc3Affected

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1908827
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fa0dc04df259ba2df3ce1920e9690c7842f8fa4b
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html

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