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THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2024-50017 (MEDIUM 5.5) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/mm/ident_map: Use gbpages only where full GB page should be mapped. When ident_pud_init() uses only GB pages to create identity maps, large ranges of addresses not actually requested can be included in the

[NVD] CVE-2024-50017 (MEDIUM 5.5) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/mm/ident_map: Use gbpages only where full GB page should be mapped. When ident_pud_init() uses only GB pages to create identity maps, large ranges of addresses not actually requested can be included in the

lownvdPublished 2024-10-21

CVE-2024-50017 CVSS: 5.5 MEDIUM Published: 2024-10-21T19:15:05.043

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

x86/mm/ident_map: Use gbpages only where full GB page should be mapped.

When ident_pud_init() uses only GB pages to create identity maps, large ranges of addresses not actually requested can be included in the resulting table; a 4K request will map a full GB. T

Indicators of compromise

CVE-2024-50017cve

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50017