CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-4133

4.7 MEDIUM Published 2007-10-04 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-10-04
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

The (1) hugetlb_vmtruncate_list and (2) hugetlb_vmtruncate functions in fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.19-rc4 perform certain prio_tree calculations using HPAGE_SIZE instead of PAGE_SIZE units, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via unspecified vectors.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.19)

References