Linux Kernel Denial of Service Vulnerability via UNIX Socket

CVE-2013-4312 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The Linux kernel before 4.4.1 allows local users to bypass file-descriptor limits and cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by sending each descriptor over a UNIX socket before closing it, related to net/unix/af_unix.c and net/unix/garbage.c.

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