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Tracker / CVE-2016-2847

CVE-2016-2847

Medium 6.2

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.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · … → 4.4.8
novell suse_linux_enterprise_debuginfo
novell suse_linux_enterprise_desktop
novell suse_linux_enterprise_live_patching
novell suse_linux_enterprise_module_for_public_cloud
novell suse_linux_enterprise_real_time_extension
novell suse_linux_enterprise_server
novell suse_linux_enterprise_software_development_kit
novell suse_linux_enterprise_workstation_extension

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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