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CVE-2021-20265

Published: Mar 10, 2021

Modified: Aug 3, 2024

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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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	kernel	affected `Linux kernel 4.5-rc3`

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1908827

x_refsource_MISC

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fa0dc04df259ba2df3ce1920e9690c7842f8fa4b

x_refsource_MISC

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html

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