vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2020-29368: ELSA-2021-4356: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (MODERATE) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
2020-06-03
Added
2021-11-18
Modified
2025-01-07

Description

An issue was discovered in __split_huge_pmd in mm/huge_memory.c in the Linux kernel before 5.7.5. The copy-on-write implementation can grant unintended write access because of a race condition in a THP mapcount check, aka CID-c444eb564fb1.
An issue was discovered in __split_huge_pmd in mm/huge_memory.c in the Linux kernel. The copy-on-write implementation can grant unintended write access because of a race condition in a THP mapcount check.

Solution

oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
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