CVE-2019-10124
kernel: hwpoison implementation in mm/memory-failure.c leads to denial of service
Severity
UnknownRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · March 5, 2019
Updated · June 28, 2026
Description
A bug was discovered in the hwpoison implementation in mm/memory-failure.c in the Linux kernel. When soft_offline_in_use_page() is run for a thp tail page after pmd is split, a privileged attacker can cause a denial of service (DoS). Privileged access is required for an attacker to trigger this bug, thus, we believe this bug is not a security flaw.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 0CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:N
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption