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CVE-2014-8171

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-02-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The memory resource controller (aka memcg) in the Linux kernel allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) by spawning new processes within a memory-constrained cgroup.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: all versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Mrg: 2.0

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0864.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2152.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2411.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0068.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74293
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198109
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0864.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2152.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2411.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0068.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74293
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198109

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