Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 6.1, Linux 6.12

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: hugetlb: avoiding soft lockup when using mprotect on a large memory area When calling mprotect on a large hugetlb memory area in our customer’s workload 300GB of hugetlb memory, soft lockup was observed: watchdog: BUG: soft...

PT-2010-5334 · Linux +1 · Linux Kernel +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.37-rc2 Description: The issue is related to a use-after-free vulnerability in the mm/mprotect.c file of the Linux kernel. This vulnerability can be exploited by local users to cause a denial of service throu...

security flaw

Linux kernel 2.4.x and 2.6.x up to 2.6.16 allows local users to bypass IPC permissions and modify a readonly attachment of shared memory by using mprotect to give write permission to the attachment. NOTE: some original raw sources combined this issue with CVE-2006-1524, but they are different bug...