A flaw was found in the Linux Kernel's memory management subsytem. In this flaw, A task is exiting and releasing 2MB page in a vma (vm_area_struct) and hits the BUG statement in pfn_swap_entry_to_page() referencing pmd_t x. This may allow a local user to crash the Linux kernel.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.10 Extra | kernel | 2022-01-20 23:43 | ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2022-004 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 4.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 4.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |