Denial Of Service (DoS) Resource Consumption

Linux kernel is vulnerable to denial of service DoS resource consumption attacks. Two memory leaks were detected in xfsattrshortformlist and xfsattr3leaflistint when running a docker container backed by xfs/overlay2. A dedicated attacker could possible exhaust all memory and create a denial of...

kernel: Memory leaks in xfs_attr_list.c error paths

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of XFS file attributes. Two memory leaks were detected in xfsattrshortformlist and xfsattr3leaflistint when running a docker container backed by xfs/overlay2. A dedicated attacker could possible exhaust all memory and create a denial of servic...