Unbounded Memory Consumption in Linux Kernel Pipes

Unbounded Memory Consumption in Linux Kernel Pipes

CVE-2016-2847 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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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