It was found that the Linux kernel did not properly account file descriptors passed over the unix socket against the process limit. A local user could use this flaw to exhaust all available memory on the system.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | kernel | 2016-02-09 13:30 | ALAS-2016-648 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 4.9 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 4.9 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 6.2 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |