Security Advisory

CVE-2021-20265

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2021-03-10 15:30:18

Last updated 2024-08-03 17:37:23

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

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.

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