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CentOS: (CVE-2014-8171) CESA-2015:0864: kernel

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CentOS: (CVE-2014-8171) CESA-2015:0864: kernel

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
04/22/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/17/2018
Modified
08/17/2018

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-kernel
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-abi-whitelists
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-debug
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-debug-devel
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-devel
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-doc
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-firmware
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-headers
  • centos-upgrade-perf
  • centos-upgrade-python-perf

References

  • RHSA-2015:0864
  • RHSA-2015:2152
  • RHSA-2015:2411
  • RHSA-2016:0068
  • 74293
  • CVE-2014-8171

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