CVE-2016-10723

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.
References
Link Resource
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10395909/ Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9842889/ Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg117896.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
Configurations

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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

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Information

Published : 2018-06-21 13:29

Updated : 2024-05-17 01:07


NVD link : CVE-2016-10723

Mitre link : CVE-2016-10723

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2016-10723


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Products Affected

linux

  • linux_kernel
CWE
CWE-399

Resource Management Errors