Oracle Linux: 100% CPU Used By Abrt-hook-ccpp Process

Applies to: 

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later

Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 7.0 to Oracle Linux 7.9 [Release OL7 to OL7U9]

Linux x86-64

Symptoms

Evidence from TOP command:

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
5538 root 20 0 19.7g 19.6g 5384 R 100.0 67.0 299:11.89 abrt-hook-ccpp

Cause

Known defect in abrt package:

2018-12-18 Martin Kutlak <mkutlak@redhat.com> - 2.1.11-53

- daemon: Fix double closed fd race condition

- Related: #1618818, #1647841, #1613236, #1613182, #1655241

Before high CPU issue was visible, vim command exited on timeout ssh session:

Nov 20 09:49:16 server abrt-hook-ccpp: Process 4792 (vim) of user 1211 killed by SIGSEGV - dumping core
Nov 20 09:49:16 server abrt-hook-ccpp: Process 4792 (vim) of user 1211 killed by SIGSEGV - dumping core