Threats tagged 'ghsa-762q-jqwq-g847'

CVE-2024-42258 is a medium severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel's memory management subsystem. It involves incorrect handling of huge page alignment on 32-bit machines due to a misconfiguration related to kernel build flags. The issue was that the kernel incorrectly used CONFIG_X86_32 instead of the more appropriate !CONFIG_64BIT to cover all 32-bit architectures. This flaw could lead to problems with huge page alignment on affected systems.