CVE-2016-2847

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2847
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2847.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-2847
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-04-27T17:59:21.947Z
Modified
2025-11-29T08:32:53.801636Z
Severity
  • 6.2 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/torvalds/linux

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/torvalds/linux
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed