cve-2022-0480
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-08-29 14:03
Modified
2024-08-02 23:32
Severity ?
Summary
A flaw was found in the filelock_init in fs/locks.c function in the Linux kernel. This issue can lead to host memory exhaustion due to memcg not limiting the number of Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) file locks.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0480Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2049700Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0f12156dff2862ac54235fc72703f18770769042Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/3373Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210902215519.AWcuVc3li%25akpm%40linux-foundation.org/Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-0480Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
n/akernel
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