EUVD-2014-8012

Malware in sbrugna...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8171

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...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8171

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...

Design/Logic Flaw

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...

CVE-2014-8171

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...

kernel: memcg: OOM handling DoS

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...