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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 29, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-0480

CVE-2022-0480

Description

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.

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