Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel through 4.15.7 via Crafted Application

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel through 4.15.7 via Crafted Application

CVE-2018-7740 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The resv_map_release function in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG) via a crafted application that makes mmap system calls and has a large pgoff argument to the remap_file_pages system call.

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