CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-4811

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2005-12-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-12-31
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

The hugepage code (hugetlb.c) in Linux kernel 2.6, possibly 2.6.12 and 2.6.13, in certain configurations, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by triggering an mmap error before a prefault, which causes an error in the unmap_hugepage_area function.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.6.0 • linux linux kernel 2.6.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.2 • linux linux kernel 2.6.3 • linux linux kernel 2.6.4 • linux linux kernel 2.6.5 • linux linux kernel 2.6.6 • linux linux kernel 2.6.7 • linux linux kernel 2.6.8 • linux linux kernel 2.6.9 • linux linux kernel 2.6.10 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11.5 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11.6 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11.7 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11.8 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11.11 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11.12 • linux linux kernel 2.6.12 • linux linux kernel 2.6.12.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.12.2 • linux linux kernel 2.6.12.3 • linux linux kernel 2.6.12.4 • linux linux kernel 2.6.12.5 • linux linux kernel 2.6.12.6 • linux linux kernel 2.6.13 • linux linux kernel 2.6.13.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.13.2 • linux linux kernel 2.6.13.3 • linux linux kernel 2.6.13.4 • linux linux kernel 2.6 test9 cvs

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