ghsa-g874-pwj2-p4wh
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-14 03:57
Modified
2022-05-14 03:57
Severity ?
6.2 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details

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.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2016-2847"
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  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2016-04-27T17:59:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
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  "id": "GHSA-g874-pwj2-p4wh",
  "modified": "2022-05-14T03:57:49Z",
  "published": "2022-05-14T03:57:49Z",
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