cve-2012-2390
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-06-13 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 19:34
Severity ?
Summary
Memory leak in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or system crash) via invalid MAP_HUGETLB mmap operations.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c50ac050811d6485616a193eb0f37bfbd191cc89
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.2
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/14
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1515-1
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1535-1
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824345
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c50ac050811d6485616a193eb0f37bfbd191cc89Exploit, Patch
Impacted products
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