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CVE-2013-4312

CVE-2013-4312

EPSS 0.6%
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.
Affected products
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References
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=712f4aad406bb1ed67f3f98d04c044191f0ff593http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176464.htmlhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176484.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0855.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.htmlhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1297813https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/712f4aad406bb1ed67f3f98d04c044191f0ff593https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4312http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3448http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3503http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.4.1