CVE-2018-20699 (GCVE-0-2018-20699)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-01-12 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 12:05
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Summary
Docker 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.
Severity
4.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2019-01-11 00:00
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