vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2016-2847: Important: kernel security and bug fix update (RHSA-2017:0217)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Apr 27, 2016
Added
Nov 4, 2016
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

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.

Solutions

no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-kernel

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