VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-2847

medium
Published 2016-04-27 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
6.2
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.2

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
62%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
linux Linux kernel Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
suse SUSE Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
12.0 Affected —
11.0 Affected —
— Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 4.3.5-1
sid Fixed 4.3.5-1
forky Fixed 4.3.5-1
bullseye Fixed 4.3.5-1
bookworm Fixed 4.3.5-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
suse novellsuse_linux_enterprise_software_development_kit11.0
suse novellsuse_linux_enterprise_software_development_kit12.0

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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