CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-7740

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2018-03-07 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-03-07
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-119

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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 4.15.7) • redhat virtualization host 4.0 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 16.04 • debian debian linux 7.0 • debian debian linux 8.0 • debian debian linux 9.0 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux server 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References