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Tracker / CVE-2017-15127

CVE-2017-15127

Medium 5.5

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).

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · … → 4.13
redhat enterprise_linux
redhat enterprise_mrg

Analysis

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