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CVE-2022-0480

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.3%

Medium (5.5). EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 21% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-770
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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