The vulnerability of the memblock component in the Linux operating system’s kernel allows a hacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the memblock component in the Linux operating system’s kernel is related to the allocation of unlimited memory. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a service failure...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-40917

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memblock: make memblocksetnode also warn about use of MAXNUMNODES On an old x86 system with...

CVE-2024-40917 memblock: make memblock_set_node() also warn about use of MAX_NUMNODES

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memblock: make memblocksetnode also warn about use of MAXNUMNODES On an old x86 system with SRAT just covering space above 4Gb: ACPI: SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 mem 0x100000000-0xfffffffff hotplug the commit referenced below leads to thi...