Security Advisory

CVE-2018-20784

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2019-02-22 15:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 12:12:27
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel before 4.20.2, kernel/sched/fair.c mishandles leaf cfs_rq's, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop in update_blocked_averages) or possibly have unspecified other impact by inducing a high load.