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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http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2947-2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2947-3 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2948-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2948-2 cve-icon cve-icon
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https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2847 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2847 cve-icon
History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2016-04-27T17:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T23:32:21.204Z

Reserved: 2016-03-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-2847

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-04-27T17:59:21.947

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:48:56.010

Link: CVE-2016-2847

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-12-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-2847 - Bugzilla