Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-20699
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:39 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2018-20699
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:48:41.112722275Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"https://github.com/docker/engine/pull/70",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2019-01-12T02:29:00.23+00:00"
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