Security Advisory

CVE-2018-7740

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-03-07 08:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 06:37:57
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The resv_map_release function in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG) via a crafted application that makes mmap system calls and has a large pgoff argument to the remap_file_pages system call.