K16830 : Linux vulnerability CVE-2014-8171

Security Advisory Description

It was found that the Linux kernel memory resource controller’s (memcg) handling of OOM (out of memory) conditions could lead to deadlocks. An attacker able to continuously spawn new processes within a single memory-constrained cgroup during an OOM event could use this flaw to lock up the system. (CVE-2014-8171)

Impact

An attacker may be able to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) for an ARX system.