CVE-2011-2496
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-06-13 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 23:00
Severity ?
Summary
Integer overflow in the vma_to_resize function in mm/mremap.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG_ON and system crash) via a crafted mremap system call that expands a memory mapping.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=982134ba62618c2d69fbbbd166d0a11ee3b7e3d8
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/27/2
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716538
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/982134ba62618c2d69fbbbd166d0a11ee3b7e3d8Exploit, Patch
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