{"id":"CVE-2022-0480","details":"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.","modified":"2026-03-15T22:43:18.699427Z","published":"2022-08-29T15:15:09.477Z","related":["ALSA-2024:2394"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0480"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210902215519.AWcuVc3li%25akpm%40linux-foundation.org/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-0480"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2049700"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/3373"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0f12156dff2862ac54235fc72703f18770769042"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.15"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"9.0"}]}],"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-0480.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}