CVE-2014-8171: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: affected versions not specified
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Mrg: version 2.0 only

Published 2018-02-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.