A flaw was found in the Linux kernels sysctl handling code for hugepages management. When multiple root level processes would write to modify the /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
file it could create a race on internal variables leading to a system crash or memory corruption.
A flaw was found in the Linux kernels sysctl handling code for hugepages management. When multiple root level processes would write to modify the
/proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
file it could create a race on internal variables leading to a system crash or memory corruption.