** DISPUTED ** 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.
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Product Name | Status | Defect | Fixed | Downloads |
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Linux | ||||
Wind River Linux LTS 17 | Won't Fix | -- | -- | -- |
Wind River Linux 8 | Requires LTSS | -- | -- | -- |
Wind River Linux 9 | Requires LTSS | -- | -- | -- |
Wind River Linux 7 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
Wind River Linux LTS 21 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
Wind River Linux LTS 22 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
Wind River Linux LTS 18 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
Wind River Linux LTS 19 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
Wind River Linux CD release | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
Wind River Linux 6 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
Wind River Linux LTS 23 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
VxWorks | ||||
VxWorks 7 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
VxWorks 6.9 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
Helix Virtualization Platform Cert Edition | ||||
Helix Virtualization Platform Cert Edition | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
Product Name | Status | Defect | Fixed | Downloads |
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