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CVE-2018-7740
medium
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.
References
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4188
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4187
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3910-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3910-1/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00000.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3096