CVE-2022-0480

CVE-2022-0480

Vendor N/A
Product kernel
Weakness CWE-770 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
Published August 29, 2022
Last update August 2, 2024

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What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

August 29, 2022 CVE published
August 2, 2024 Record updated