CVE-2022-50517

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugememory: do not clobber swpentryt during THP split The following has been observed when running stressng mmap since commit b653db77350c "mm: Clear page-private when splitting or migrating a page" watchdog: BUG: soft lockup ...

PT-2022-34906 · Linux · Linux Kernel

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux Kernel versions prior to v6.0.7 Description: The issue is related to the mm/huge memory component, where the swp entry t is clobbered during the THP split process. This problem was introduced in version v5.19 and is fixed in version...