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CVE-2021-20265
A flaw was found in the way memory resources were freed in the unixstreamrecvmsg 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...
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CVE-2021-20265
CVE-2021-20265 affects the Linux kernel: a memory-leak/DoS bug in unix_stream_recvmsg when a signal is pending can exhaust memory locally. Connected docs reference a fix in the upstream kernel (commit fa0dc04df259ba2df3ce1920e9690c7842f8fa4b4) and later kernel slab-leak fixes for af_unix, indicat...
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