Linux Kernel hugetlb_vmtruncate_list() Denial of Service Vulnerability

Linux Kernel is an open source operating system. A security vulnerability in the Linux Kernel hugetlbvmtruncatelist function allows local users to trigger a page mapping error and cause a denial of service attack...

prio_tree unit kernel panic

The 1 hugetlbvmtruncatelist and 2 hugetlbvmtruncate functions in fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.19-rc4 perform certain priotree calculations using HPAGESIZE instead of PAGESIZE units, which allows local users to cause a denial of service panic via unspecified vectors...