CVE-2017-15127

Severity

49%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

115%

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).

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 3.0 Base Score 5.5. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

First reported 7 years ago

2018-01-14 06:29:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-10-03 00:03:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel

RedHat Enterprise MRG 2.0

2.0

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.0 (7)

7.0

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5af10dfd0afc559bb4b0f7e3e8227a1578333995

Patch, Vendor Advisory

102517

RHSA-2018:0676

RHSA-2018:1062

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15127

Third Party Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1525218

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5af10dfd0afc559bb4b0f7e3e8227a1578333995

Patch, Third Party Advisory

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