suse · CVE-2016-2847

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 13:40:14 UTC Updated: 2025-05-17 23:59:56 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-2847 severity moderate: SUSE including 175 source package names (kernel-3.10.0-514.el7, kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-514.el7, …), 495 product×package rows across 77 product lines (SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0, SUSE Enterprise Storage 6, … (77 product lines)): Fixed 297, Known Not Affected 198.

Description:

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.

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