CVE-2014-8171

medium

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.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198109

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74293

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0068.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2411.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2152.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0864.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-02-09

Updated: 2023-02-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H