Threats tagged 'ghsa-p4vj-hhfc-5j8x'

CVE-2025-37760 addresses a vulnerability in the Linux kernel's memory management subsystem related to virtual memory area (VMA) merging under out-of-memory (OOM) conditions. The fix introduces a 'give_up_on_oom' option to prevent VMA modifications if an OOM event occurs during merge or modification operations, specifically improving robustness in userfaultfd (uffd) release handling. This prevents confusion in uffd code that could arise from treating error values as VMA pointers due to OOM-triggered failures.