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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2020-10757: kernel: kernel: DAX hugepages not considered during mremap

Name: Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2020-10757: kernel: kernel: DAX hugepages not considered during mremap
Creator: Red Hat
Published: 2020-06-09T00:00:00.000Z
Keywords: CVE, CWE-119, CWE-843, Red Hat OpenShift, 2020, 10757, kernel, linuxrpm-upgrade-redhat-coreos, Severity 7

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Published

Jun 9, 2020

Added

Dec 29, 2020

Modified

Mar 30, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux Kernel in versions after 4.5-rc1 in the way mremap handled DAX Huge Pages. This flaw allows a local attacker with access to a DAX enabled storage to escalate their privileges on the system.

Solution

linuxrpm-upgrade-redhat-coreos

References

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