Security Advisory

CVE-2014-8171

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-02-09 22:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 13:10:51
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

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.