CVE-2021-3669
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-08-26 15:25
Modified
2024-08-03 17:01
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3669Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1980619Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1986473Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-3669Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
n/akernel
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