CVE-2022-0480 Information

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.

Reference

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2049700 https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/3373 https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210902215519.AWcuVc3li%25akpm@linux-foundation.org/ https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0480 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0f12156dff2862ac54235fc72703f18770769042 https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-0480