CVE-2022-0480

Published: Aug 29, 2022

Modified: Aug 2, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	kernel	affected `Not Known`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-770

References

https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/3373

x_refsource_MISC

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210902215519.AWcuVc3li%25akpm%40linux-foundation.org/

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2049700

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https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0f12156dff2862ac54235fc72703f18770769042

x_refsource_MISC

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0480

x_refsource_MISC

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-0480

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CVE-2022-0480

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References