CVE-2022-49264

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: exec: Force single empty string when argv is empty Quoting1 Ariadne Conill: "In several other operating systems, it is a hard requirement that the second argument to execve2 be the name of a program, thus prohibiting a scenario...

kernel: mm: mem allocated invisible to oom_kill() when not attached to any threads

fs/exec.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 does not enable the OOM Killer to assess use of stack memory by arrays representing the 1 arguments and 2 environment, which allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted exec system call, aka an "OOM dodging issue," a...