CVE-2022-0480
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0480
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-0480.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-0480
- Aliases
- Downstream
- Related
- Withdrawn
- 2026-01-27T04:18:16.626449Z
- Published
- 2022-08-29T15:15:09Z
- Modified
- 2026-01-27T04:18:16.626449Z
- Severity
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- 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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A flaw was found in the filelock_init in fs/locks.c function in the Linux kernel. This issue can lead to host memory exhaustion due to memcg not limiting the number of Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) file locks.
- References
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- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0480
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2049700
- https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/3373
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210902215519.AWcuVc3li%25akpm%40linux-foundation.org/
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-0480
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0f12156dff2862ac54235fc72703f18770769042