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CVE ID:CVE-2021-20265
Description:A flaw was found in the way memory resources were freed in the unix_stream_recvmsg 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 availability.
Test IDs: None available
Cross References: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2021-20265
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1908827
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1908827
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fa0dc04df259ba2df3ce1920e9690c7842f8fa4b
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fa0dc04df259ba2df3ce1920e9690c7842f8fa4b
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html




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