Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.13)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.38% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005991
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Jan 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Jan 2018

CVE-2017-15127  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.13 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). 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).

CVSS Base Scores

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