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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Feb 9, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2014-8171

CVE-2014-8171

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.

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