6.2
CVSSv3

CVE-2013-4312

Published: 08/02/2016 Updated: 13/02/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 6.2 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 2.5
VMScore: 437
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

The Linux kernel prior to 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.

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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation or denial-of-service CVE-2013-4312 Tetsuo Handa discovered that it is possible for a process to open far more files than the process' limit leading to denial-of-service conditions CVE-2015-7566 Ralf Spenneberg of OpenSource Se ...
The Linux kernel before 441 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_unixc and net/unix/garbagec (CVE-2013-4312) A race condition in the tty_ioctl function in drivers/tty/tty_ioc in the Linux ke ...
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