CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-0480
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-08-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-770
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.15)
• redhat enterprise linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0480 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2049700 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0f12156dff2862ac54235fc72703f18770769042 Patch
- https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/3373 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210902215519.AWcuVc3li%25akpm%40linux-foundation.org/ Vendor Advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-0480 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0480 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2049700 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0f12156dff2862ac54235fc72703f18770769042 Patch
- https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/3373 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210902215519.AWcuVc3li%25akpm%40linux-foundation.org/ Vendor Advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-0480 Third Party Advisory