Linux Kernel 'Mm/hugetlb. c' Local Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2017-15127)

Linux Kernel 'Mm/hugetlb. c' Local Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2017-15127)
Linux Kernel 'Mm/hugetlb. c' Local Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2017-15127)

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Affected Systems:

Linux kernel <4.13

Description:

Bugtraq id: 102517
CVE (CAN) ID: CVE-2017-15127

Linux Kernel is the Kernel of the Linux operating system.

Linux kernel <4.13, mm/hugetlb. c/hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte function has a security vulnerability. After successful exploitation, local denial of service can be triggered.

<* Source: Andrea Arcangeli
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Suggestion:

Vendor patch:

Linux
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The vendor has released a patch to fix this security problem. Please download it from the vendor's homepage:

Https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi? Id = 1525218
Https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15127
Http://www.kernel.org/
Https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5af10dfd0afc559bb4b0f7e3e8227a1578333995
Https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit? Id = 5af10dfd0afc559bb4b0f7e3e8227a1578333995