CVE-2021-20265

Publication date

2021-03-10 15:30:18

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

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.