CVE-2016-10723

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.2. Since the page allocator does not yield CPU resources to the owner of the oomlock mutex, a local unprivileged user can trivially lock up the system forever by wasting CPU resources from the page allocator e.g., via concurrent page fault...

CVE-2016-10723: Undefined Security Weakness

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.2. Since the page allocator does not yield CPU resources to the owner of the oomlock mutex, a local unprivileged user can trivially lock up the system forever by wasting CPU resources from the page allocator e.g., via concurrent page fault...