UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20699

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-20699
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20699.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20699
Upstream
Published
2019-01-12T02:29:00Z
Modified
2025-09-08T16:45:07Z
Severity
  • 4.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - negligible
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / docker.io

Package

Name
docker.io
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/docker.io@18.09.2-0ubuntu1~16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
18.09.2-0ubuntu1~16.04.1

Affected versions

1.*

1.6.2~dfsg1-1ubuntu4
1.10.2-0ubuntu3
1.10.2-0ubuntu4
1.10.3-0ubuntu1
1.10.3-0ubuntu4
1.10.3-0ubuntu5
1.10.3-0ubuntu6
1.11.2-0ubuntu5~16.04
1.12.1-0ubuntu13~16.04.1
1.12.3-0ubuntu4~16.04.2
1.12.6-0ubuntu1~16.04.1
1.13.1-0ubuntu1~16.04.2

17.*

17.03.2-0ubuntu2~16.04.1

18.*

18.06.1-0ubuntu1~16.04.2
18.06.1-0ubuntu1.2~16.04.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "18.09.2-0ubuntu1~16.04.1",
            "binary_name": "docker.io"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "18.09.2-0ubuntu1~16.04.1",
            "binary_name": "golang-docker-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "18.09.2-0ubuntu1~16.04.1",
            "binary_name": "golang-github-docker-docker-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "18.09.2-0ubuntu1~16.04.1",
            "binary_name": "vim-syntax-docker"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / docker.io

Package

Name
docker.io
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/docker.io@18.09.2-0ubuntu1~18.04.1?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
18.09.2-0ubuntu1~18.04.1

Affected versions

1.*

1.13.1-0ubuntu6

17.*

17.03.2-0ubuntu1
17.03.2-0ubuntu3
17.03.2-0ubuntu5
17.12.1-0ubuntu1

18.*

18.06.1-0ubuntu1~18.04.1
18.06.1-0ubuntu1.2~18.04.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "18.09.2-0ubuntu1~18.04.1",
            "binary_name": "docker.io"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "18.09.2-0ubuntu1~18.04.1",
            "binary_name": "golang-docker-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "18.09.2-0ubuntu1~18.04.1",
            "binary_name": "golang-github-docker-docker-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "18.09.2-0ubuntu1~18.04.1",
            "binary_name": "vim-syntax-docker"
        }
    ]
}