Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-57977

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - memcg: fix soft lockup in the OOM process A soft lockup issue was found in the product with about 56,000 tasks were in the OOM cgroup, it was traversing them wh...

CVE-2024-57977

CVE-2024-57977 is a Linux kernel vulnerability in memcg where the OOM task traversal could cause a soft lockup when thousands of processes reside in the OOM cgroup. The issue arises from scanning OOM tasks for each memory pressure event, delaying the watchdog handling. The documented fix adds a r...