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CVE-2021-20265

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NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-20265

CGA ID

CGA-38x6-pcqq-2323

Severity

Unknown

Description

A flaw was found in the way memory resources were freed in the unix_stream_recvmsg function in the Linux kernel when a signal was pending. This flaw allows an unprivileged local user to crash the system by exhausting available memory. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

References

Affected packages


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