CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-1474

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2019-12-26 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-12-26
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-835

Description

A locally locally exploitable DOS vulnerability was found in pax-linux versions 2.6.32.33-test79.patch, 2.6.38-test3.patch, and 2.6.37.4-test14.patch. A bad bounds check in arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown triggered by programs doing an mmap after a MAP_GROWSDOWN mmap will create an infinite loop condition without releasing the VM semaphore eventually leading to a system crash.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.6.32.33 • linux linux kernel 2.6.37.4 • linux linux kernel 2.6.38

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References