Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.15.3-1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-2994363
  • published28 Aug 2022
  • disclosed28 Aug 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Aug 2022

CVE-2021-3669  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.15.3-1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption due to the measuring usage of the shared memory not scaling with large shared memory segment counts, which could lead to resource exhaustion.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1