Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-64k-debug-devel-matched (opens in a new tab)
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- published15 Mar 2025
- disclosed3 Jan 2022
Introduced: 3 Jan 2022
CVE-2022-0480 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-64k-debug-devel-matched package and not the kernel-64k-debug-devel-matched package as distributed by RHEL.
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.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0480
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210902215519.AWcuVc3li%25akpm@linux-foundation.org/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2049700
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0f12156dff2862ac54235fc72703f18770769042
- https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/3373
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210902215519.AWcuVc3li%25akpm%40linux-foundation.org/
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-0480