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CVE-2021-20265

Updated on 10 Mar 2021

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE ID
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

A flaw was found in the way memory resources were freed in the unix_stream_recvmsg function in the Linux kernel when a signal was pending. This flaw allows an unprivileged local user to crash the system by exhausting available memory. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 8 , AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 6 , CentOS 6 ELS , CentOS 6 plus , CentOS 7 , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 7 plus , CentOS 8 , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CloudLinux 6 ELS , CloudLinux OS 6 , CloudLinux OS 6h , CloudLinux OS 7 , CloudLinux OS 7h , CloudLinux OS 8 , Debian 10 , Debian 10 cloud , Debian 9 , Endurance 6 elrepo , Endurance 7 eig 3.10 , OEL 6 Dell , OEL 7 Dell , OpenVZ 6 , Oracle Linux 6 , Oracle Linux 6 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 , Proxmox VE 5 , Proxmox VE 6 , RHEL 6 , RHEL 7 , RHEL 8 , Rocky Linux 8 , Scientific 6 , Ubuntu 14.04 , Ubuntu 14.04 ESM , Ubuntu 16.04 , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ESM , Ubuntu 18.04 , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 , Upstream 3.16 , Upstream 4.4
Affected packages:
kernel @ 5.14.0 (+72 more)
A flaw was found in the way memory resources were freed in the unix_stream_recvmsg function in the Linux kernel when a signal was pending. This flaw allows an unprivileged local user to crash the system by exhausting available memory. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Fixes