The vulnerability of the __unmap_hugepage_range() function in the Linux kernel memory manager allows a hacker to trigger a system failure.

The vulnerability of the unmaphugepagerange function in the mm/hugetlb.c file of the Linux kernel’s memory manager is related to an incorrect check in the code that returns vmaneedsreservation. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to trigger a service failure...

Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system of the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel that stems from the fact that the vmaneedsreservation function may return -ENOMEM if the allocatefileregionentries function...