Medium (6.4). EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A race condition between hugetlb sysctl handlers in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel before 5.8.8 could be used by local attackers to corrupt memory, cause a NULL pointer dereference, or possibly have unspecified other impact, aka CID-17743798d812.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
6.4 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 19% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)