CVE-2022-0480

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CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium

EPSS

<1%p21

Published

Aug 29, 2022 (Aug 29, 2022)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Vendors: linux redhat
Products: linux kernel, enterprise linux
Weakness: CWE-770
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.3%)

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