CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-8171
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-02-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
The memory resource controller (aka memcg) in the Linux kernel allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) by spawning new processes within a memory-constrained cgroup.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel
• redhat enterprise linux 6.0
• redhat enterprise linux 7.0
• redhat enterprise mrg 2.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0864.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2152.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2411.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0068.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74293 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198109 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0864.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2152.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2411.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0068.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74293 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198109 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory