cve/2013/CVE-2013-4312.md

CVE-2013-4312

Description

The Linux kernel before 4.4.1 allows local users to bypass file-descriptor limits and cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by sending each descriptor over a UNIX socket before closing it, related to net/unix/af_unix.c and net/unix/garbage.c.

POC

Reference

• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2932-1

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon