The vulnerability of the ident_pud_init() function in the arch/x86/mm/ident_map.c module, which is part of the Linux operating system’s x86 kernel support, allows a hacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the identpudinit function in the arch/x86/mm/identmap.c module, which is part of the Linux kernel support for x86 platforms, is related to insufficient comparison operations. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a system failure...

CVE-2024-50017: Undefined Security Weakness

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/mm/identmap: Use gbpages only where full GB page should be mapped. When identpudinit uses only GB pages to create identity maps, large ranges of addresses not actually requested can be included in the resulting table; a 4K...