CVE-2017-15127

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    CVE-2017-15127

    Published: 14 Jan 2018Last Modified: 14 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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).

    References: 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-2017-15127, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1525218, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5af10dfd0afc559bb4b0f7e3e8227a1578333995, http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5af10dfd0afc559bb4b0f7e3e8227a1578333995

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