“Some vulnerabilities have been reported in the Linux Kernel,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS
(Denial of Service), disclose potentially sensitive information,
and gain escalated privileges.“The vulnerabilities are caused due to the missing verification
of parameters within the ‘vmsplice_to_user()’,
‘copy_from_user_mmap_sem()’, and ‘get_iovec_page_array()’ functions
in fs/splice.c before using them to perform certain memory
operations…”
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