MEDIUM 5.5 Microsoft

CVE-2022-0480

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.

Microsoft Security Update 2022-Aug: 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.

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Published: 2022-08-09 · Source: Microsoft · Feed updated: 2026-09-03
This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5 was published on 2022-08-09 via Microsoft. Affected: cm1 kernel 5.10.189.1-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0.
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