CVE-2022-0480

MEDIUM

5.5

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score5.5

SeverityMEDIUM

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredLOW

User InteractionNONE

Published8/29/2022

Last Modified11/21/2024

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

linux:linux_kernelredhat:enterprise_linux

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-770CWE-770

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0480(secalert@redhat.com)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2049700(secalert@redhat.com)

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0f12156dff2862ac54235fc72703f18770769042(secalert@redhat.com)

https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/3373(secalert@redhat.com)

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210902215519.AWcuVc3li%25akpm%40linux-foundation.org/(secalert@redhat.com)

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-0480(secalert@redhat.com)

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0480(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2049700(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0f12156dff2862ac54235fc72703f18770769042(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/3373(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210902215519.AWcuVc3li%25akpm%40linux-foundation.org/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-0480(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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