CVE-2014-8171

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3