cve-2004-0491
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2005-02-06 05:00
Modified
2024-08-08 00:17
Severity ?
Summary
The linux-2.4.21-mlock.patch in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 does not properly maintain the mlock page count when one process unlocks pages that belong to another process, which allows local users to mlock more memory than specified by the rlimit.
References
cve@mitre.orgftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060402-01-U
cve@mitre.orghttp://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=108087017610947&w=2
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/19607
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-472.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13769
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126411
cve@mitre.orghttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10672
cve@mitre.orghttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1117
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