VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2017-15127
A superfluous implicit page unlock for VM_SHARED hugetlbfs mapping could trigger a local denial of service (BUG).
MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 0.38%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.38%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
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
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.38% probability · 31th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-460
- Affected
- linux/linux kernel · redhat/enterprise linux · redhat/enterprise mrg
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5af10dfd0afc559bb4b0f7e3e8227a1578333995Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102517
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0676
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1062
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15127Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1525218Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5af10dfd0afc559bb4b0f7e3e8227a1578333995Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5af10dfd0afc559bb4b0f7e3e8227a1578333995Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102517
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0676
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1062
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15127Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1525218Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5af10dfd0afc559bb4b0f7e3e8227a1578333995Patch, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.