CVE-2016-10723

DISPUTED 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
oom_lock 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 events) when the global OOM killer is invoked. NOTE:
the software maintainer has not accepted certain proposed patches, in part
because of a viewpoint that “the underlying problem is non-trivial to
handle.”

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