CVE-2016-10723
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.2.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.38%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
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.
- CVSS 3.0
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.38% probability · 31th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-399
- Affected
- linux/linux kernel
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- 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.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- 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.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.