CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-2372

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2008-07-02 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-07-02
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
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

The Linux kernel 2.6.24 and 2.6.25 before 2.6.25.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of calls to the get_user_pages function, which lacks a ZERO_PAGE optimization and results in allocation of "useless newly zeroed pages."

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.6.24 • linux linux kernel 2.6.25 • linux linux kernel 2.6.25.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.25.2 • linux linux kernel 2.6.25.3 • linux linux kernel 2.6.25.4 • linux linux kernel 2.6.25.5 • linux linux kernel 2.6.25.6 • linux linux kernel 2.6.25.7 • linux linux kernel 2.6.25.8

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References