CVE-2018-20699

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-20699
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-01-12 02:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-03-14 18:13:00 UTC
DescriptionDocker Engine before 18.09 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (dockerd memory consumption) via a large integer in a --cpuset-mems or --cpuset-cpus value, related to daemon/daemon_unix.go, pkg/parsers/parsers.go, and pkg/sysinfo/sysinfo.go.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Docker Engine All All All All
Application Docker Engine All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 7.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Fix denial of service with large numbers in cpuset-cpus and cpuset-mems by thaJeztah · Pull Request #37967 · moby/moby · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
[18.09] backport fix denial of service with large numbers in cpuset-cpus and cpuset-mems by thaJeztah · Pull Request #70 · docker/engine · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
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Legacy QID Mappings

  • 353055 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for docker : ALAS2NITRO-ENCLAVES-2021-003
  • 353068 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for docker : ALAS2DOCKER-2021-003
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