fkie_cve-2016-2847
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2016-04-27 17:59
Modified
2025-04-12 10:46
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
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