vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2020-10757: DAX hugepages not considered during mremap (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
2020-06-09
Added
2020-07-23
Modified
2024-11-26

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(s)

redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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