CVE-2017-15127

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-01-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-460

Description

A flaw was found in the hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte function in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13. A superfluous implicit page unlock for VM_SHARED hugetlbfs mapping could trigger a local denial of service (BUG).

Affected products

Linux kernel: before 4.13 — fixed in 4.13
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 7.0
RedHat Enterprise Mrg: 2.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 4.13. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5af10dfd0afc559bb4b0f7e3e8227a1578333995
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102517
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0676
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1062
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15127
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1525218
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5af10dfd0afc559bb4b0f7e3e8227a1578333995
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5af10dfd0afc559bb4b0f7e3e8227a1578333995
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102517
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0676
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1062
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15127

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