CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-2183
4.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-06-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.0 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
Race condition in the scan_get_next_rmap_item function in mm/ksm.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39.3, when Kernel SamePage Merging (KSM) is enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted application.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.39.2)
• linux linux kernel 2.6.39
• linux linux kernel 2.6.39.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39.3 ftp.osuosl.org
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2b472611a32a72f4a118c069c2d62a1a3f087afd git.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/1 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710338 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2b472611a32a72f4a118c069c2d62a1a3f087afd Patch
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39.3 ftp.osuosl.org
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2b472611a32a72f4a118c069c2d62a1a3f087afd git.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/1 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710338 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2b472611a32a72f4a118c069c2d62a1a3f087afd Patch