Bug 1297813 (CVE-2013-4312)
| Summary: | CVE-2013-4312 kernel: File descriptors passed over unix sockets are not properly accounted | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Adam Mariš <amaris> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | aquini, bhu, carnil, dhoward, fhrbata, iboverma, jkacur, joelsmith, jross, kernel-mgr, kstutsma, lgoncalv, matt, mcressma, nmurray, plougher, rvrbovsk, sardella, security-response-team, slawomir, slong, vdronov, williams |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: |
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.
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Story Points: | --- |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2019-06-08 02:47:22 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 1297403, 1297406, 1300216, 1303586, 1303587, 1303592, 1303594 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1297817 | ||
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Description
Adam Mariš
2016-01-12 14:21:23 UTC
This issue went public via debian security advisory: https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3448 Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1300216] Statement: This issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, and MRG-2. Future Linux kernel updates for the respective releases might address this issue. This issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This has been rated as having Moderate security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/. kernel-4.3.4-300.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. kernel-4.3.4-200.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2016:0855 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0855.html This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2016:2574 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2016:2584 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2016:2574 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2016:2584 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html |