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CVE-2014-8171

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Date: February 9, 2018

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.5

Related Resources (9)

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0068.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2152.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8171

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8171

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2411.html

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198109

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74293

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0864.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2014-8171

Severity Score

5.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

Top Fix

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.5
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	LOW
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.9
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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