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CVE-2022-0480
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2022-08-29T15:15:09.477 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:20:41.790

Summary

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 products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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