CVE-2021-3669

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Aug 26, 2022
Updated: Nov 3, 2025
Reserved: Jul 29, 2021

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. Measuring usage of the shared memory does not scale with large shared memory segment counts which could lead to resource exhaustion and DoS.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

Product	Versions
kerneln/a	Not KnownAffected

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1986473
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1980619
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3669
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-3669
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/10/msg00003.html

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