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CVE-2022-0480

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.

Published

2022-08-29T15:15:09.477

Last Modified

2024-11-21T06:38:44.910

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 5.5 (MEDIUM)

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-770
Type: Secondary
CWE-770

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Operating System	linux	linux_kernel	< 5.15	Yes
Operating System	redhat	enterprise_linux	9.0	Yes

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0480 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2049700 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0f12156dff2862ac54235fc72703f18770769042 Patch ([email protected])
https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/3373 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210902215519.AWcuVc3li%25akpm%40linux-foundation.org/ Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-0480 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0480 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2049700 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0f12156dff2862ac54235fc72703f18770769042 Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/3373 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210902215519.AWcuVc3li%25akpm%40linux-foundation.org/ Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-0480 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)