CVE-2013-4312

Published February 8th, 2016

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CVSS v3

N/A

CVSS v2

4.9

MEDIUM

Affected

PROJECT

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.

torvalds/linux

Linux kernel source tree

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