{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2021-08-02T06:02:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: reading /proc/sysvipc/shm does not scale with large shared memory segment counts",
    "id" : "1986473",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1986473"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-770",
  "details" : [ "A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. Measuring usage of the shared memory does not scale with large shared memory segment counts which could lead to resource exhaustion and DoS.", "A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. Measuring usage of the shared memory does not scale with large shared memory segment counts which could lead to resource exhaustion and DoS." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2022-05-10T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2022:1975",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::nfv",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-372.9.1.rt7.166.el8",
    "impact" : "moderate"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2022-05-10T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2022:1988",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-372.9.1.el8",
    "impact" : "moderate"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "impact" : "moderate"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "impact" : "moderate"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "kernel-alt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "impact" : "moderate"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "impact" : "moderate"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3669\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3669" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2021-3669",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options does not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}