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CVE-2013-4312 (GCVE-0-2013-4312)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-02-08 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 16:38
VLAI
Summary
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.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1297813 x_refsource_CONFIRM
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Date Public
2016-01-31 00:00
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