CVE-2022-0480

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    CVE-2022-0480

    Published: 29 Aug 2022Last Modified: 28 Oct 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0480, https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0f12156dff2862ac54235fc72703f18770769042, https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210902215519.AWcuVc3li%25akpm%40linux-foundation.org/, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-0480, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/0xxx/CVE-2022-0480.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0480, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2049700, https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/3373

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0f12156dff2862ac54235fc72703f18770769042

    Affected versions

    v5.14

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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