GHSA-6g7q-qqm3-vgfm

GHSA-6g7q-qqm3-vgfm PUBLISHED CVSS 6.900000095367432 MEDIUM

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 17, 2022

The ipc_rcu_putref function in ipc/util.c in the Linux kernel before 3.10 does not properly manage a reference count, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or system crash) via a crafted application.

Risk scores

CVSS 4.0

6.900000095367432

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Timeline

May 17, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory

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References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6062a8dc0517bce23e3c2f7d2fea5e22411269a3 url
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00045.html url
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0285.html url
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4483 advisory
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6062a8dc0517bce23e3c2f7d2fea5e22411269a3 url
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/30/4 url
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6062a8dc0517bce23e3c2f7d2fea5e22411269a3 url
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1024854 url
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.10.bz2 url
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0284.html url

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