cve-2011-4097
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-05-17 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 23:53
Severity ?
Summary
Integer overflow in the oom_badness function in mm/oom_kill.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1.8 on 64-bit platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or process termination) by using a certain large amount of memory.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1.8Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/01/2Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750399Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/56c6a8a4aadca809e04276eabe5552935c51387fExploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
n/an/a
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