kernel: memcg does not limit the number of POSIX file locks allowing memory exhaustion

A flaw was found in the filelockinit 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...

PT-2025-13315

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description A NULL pointer dereference issue has been resolved in the Linux kernel. The problem occurred when hwpoison forcibly uncharged a LRU hwpoisoned page, potentially resulting in a NULL folio...

PT-2024-26760 · Linux +3 · Linux Kernel +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to a NULL pointer dereference in the zswap shrinker when memcg is disabled with the boot time flag. This can cause the zswap shrinker to be called with sc-memcg...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a...

kernel: memcg does not limit the number of POSIX file locks allowing memory exhaustion

A flaw was found in the filelockinit 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...

SUSE CVE-2021-47011

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: memcontrol: slab: fix obtain a reference to a freeing memcg Patch series "Use objcgroup APIs to charge kmem pages", v5. Since Roman's series "The new cgroup slab memory controller" applied. All slab objects are charged with t...

CVE-2021-47011

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: memcontrol: slab: fix obtain a reference to a freeing memcg Patch series "Use objcgroup APIs to charge kmem pages", v5. Since Roman's series "The new cgroup slab memory controller" applied. All slab objects are charged with t...

CVE-2021-47011

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: memcontrol: slab: fix obtain a reference to a freeing memcg Patch series "Use objcgroup APIs to charge kmem pages", v5. Since Roman's series "The new cgroup slab memory controller" applied. All slab objects are charged with t...

CVE-2021-47011

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: memcontrol: slab: fix obtain a reference to a freeing memcg Patch series "Use objcgroup APIs to charge kmem pages", v5. Since Roman's series "The new cgroup slab memory controller" applied. All slab objects are charged with t...

CVE-2021-47011

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: memcontrol: slab: fix obtain a reference to a freeing memcg Patch series "Use objcgroup APIs to charge kmem pages", v5. Since Roman's series "The new cgroup slab memory controller" applied. All slab objects are charged with t...

Design/Logic Flaw

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: memcontrol: slab: fix obtain a reference to a freeing memcg Patch series "Use objcgroup APIs to charge kmem pages", v5. Since Roman's series "The new cgroup slab memory controller" applied. All slab objects are charged with t...

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-47011

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: memcontrol: slab: fix obtain a reference to a freeing memcg Patch series "Use objcgroup APIs to charge kmem pages", v5. Since Roman's series "The new cgroup slab memory controller" applied. All slab objects are charged with t...

CVE-2021-47011 mm: memcontrol: slab: fix obtain a reference to a freeing memcg

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: memcontrol: slab: fix obtain a reference to a freeing memcg Patch series "Use objcgroup APIs to charge kmem pages", v5. Since Roman's series "The new cgroup slab memory controller" applied. All slab objects are charged with t...

CVE-2021-47011

CVE-2021-47011 is a Linux kernel memory-control (kmem/slab) issue fixed by patch series “Use obj_cgroup APIs to charge kmem pages” after Vietnam’s memcg slab work. The vulnerability revolves around certain corner objects (e.g., SLUB allocations larger than order-1 page, or pages from buddy alloca...

kernel: memcg: fix possible use-after-free in memcg_write_event_control()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memcg: fix possible use-after-free in memcgwriteeventcontrol memcgwriteeventcontrol accesses the dentry-dname of the specified control fd to route the write call. As a cgroup interface file can't be renamed, it's safe to access...

kernel security and bug fix update

An update is available for kernel. This update affects Rocky Linux SIG Cloud 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux...

SUSE CVE-2012-1146

The memcgroupusageunregisterevent function in mm/memcontrol.c in the Linux kernel before 3.2.10 does not properly handle multiple events that are attached to the same eventfd, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash or possibly have...

SUSE CVE-2019-14891

A flaw was found in cri-o, as a result of all pod-related processes being placed in the same memory cgroup. This can result in container management conmon processes being killed if a workload process triggers an out-of-memory OOM condition for the cgroup. An attacker could abuse this flaw to get...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: A memory overflow vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's ipc functionality of the memcg subsystem, in the way a user calls the semget function multiple times, creating semaphores. This flaw allows a local user to starve the resources, causing a denial of service. The highes...