Local Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte Function

CVE-2017-15127 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

A flaw was found in the hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte function in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13. A superfluous implicit page unlock for VM_SHARED hugetlbfs mapping could trigger a local denial of service (BUG).

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