CVE-2016-10723

Name	CVE-2016-10723
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	buster	4.19.249-2	vulnerable
	buster (security)	4.19.304-1	vulnerable
	bullseye	5.10.209-2	vulnerable
	bullseye (security)	5.10.205-2	vulnerable
	bookworm	6.1.76-1	vulnerable
	bookworm (security)	6.1.85-1	vulnerable
	trixie	6.6.15-2	vulnerable
	sid	6.7.9-2	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
linux	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)	unimportant
linux-4.9	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)	unimportant

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10395909/
Negligible security impact, long standing limitation