Tracker / CVE-2014-8171
CVE-2014-8171
Medium 5.5
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.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel |
|---|---|
| redhat | enterprise_linux |
| redhat | enterprise_mrg |
Analysis
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