Linux kernel is vulnerable to denial of service(DoS) attacks. An attacker could exploit a flaw in the hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte
function in mm/hugetlb.c
. This occurs when freeing pages in hugetlbfs. An attacker could trigger a local denial of service by crashing the kernel.
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