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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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