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CVE-2016-2847
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2016-04-27 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-399
Description
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.
Affected products
- Linux kernel: through 4.4.8
- Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Debuginfo: 11.0-sp4
- Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: 12.0, 12.0-sp1
- Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Live Patching: 12.0
- Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Module For Public Cloud: 12.0
- Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension: 11.0-sp4, 12.0-sp1
- Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server: 11.0-extra, 11.0-sp4, 12.0, 12.0-sp1
- Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 11.0-sp4, 12.0, 12.0-sp1
- Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension: 12.0, 12.0-sp1
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=759c01142a5d0f364a462346168a56de28a80f52
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00060.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00052.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00054.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00056.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00059.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0217.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3503
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