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SUSE: CVE-2013-4312: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
02/07/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/26/2018
Modified
06/21/2018

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-kernel-bigmem
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-bigmem-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-bigmem-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-bigsmp
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-bigsmp-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-bigsmp-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-extra
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-man
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-docs
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-macros
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-obs-build
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-pae
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-pae-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-pae-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ppc64
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ppc64-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ppc64-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-source
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-syms
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-trace
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-trace-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-trace-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-xen
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-xen-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-xen-devel

References

  • 82986
  • DSA-3448
  • DSA-3503
  • CVE-2013-4312
  • RHSA-2016:0855
  • RHSA-2016:2574
  • RHSA-2016:2584
  • SUSE-SU-2016:2245-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:2976-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:3069-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:0333-1
  • USN-2908-1
  • USN-2908-2
  • USN-2908-3
  • USN-2908-4
  • USN-2908-5
  • USN-2929-1
  • USN-2929-2
  • USN-2931-1
  • USN-2932-1
  • USN-2967-1
  • USN-2967-2
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