CVE-2014-8171

CWE-399CWE-8337 documents7 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUM
EPSS
0.0%
top 84.97%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Redhat Enterprise LinuxRedhat Enterprise MRG
Timeline
PublishedFeb 9
Latest updateMay 13

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debianlinux< 3.12.6-1+3

Also affects: Enterprise Linux 6.0, 7.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-fj89-88c3-v65v: The memory resource controller (aka memcg) in the Linux kernel allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) by spawning new processes wi↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2014-8171: The memory resource controller (aka memcg) in the Linux kernel allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) by spawning new processes wi↗2018-02-09
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OSV
CVE-2014-8171: The memory resource controller (aka memcg) in the Linux kernel allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) by spawning new processes wi↗2018-02-09
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: memcg: OOM handling DoS↗2015-04-21
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Debian
CVE-2014-8171: linux - The memory resource controller (aka memcg) in the Linux kernel allows local user...↗2014
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2014-8171 kernel: memcg: OOM handling DoS↗2015-03-03
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