CVE-2013-4312

medium

Published 2016-02-08 · 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

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.2

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

62%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`4.3.3-6`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`4.3.3-6`
debian	forky	fixed	`4.3.3-6`
debian	sid	fixed	`4.3.3-6`
debian	trixie	fixed	`4.3.3-6`
linux-kernel		affected

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.