CVSS 3.0
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2018-7740
The resv_map_release function in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG) via a crafted application that makes mmap system calls and has a large pgoff argument to the remap_file_pages system call.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 47% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- linux:linux_kernel
- redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop
- redhat:enterprise_linux_server
- redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation
- redhat:virtualization_host