CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-2479
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-03-01
- 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-399
Description
The Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not properly create transparent huge pages in response to a MAP_PRIVATE mmap system call on /dev/zero, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted application.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.39)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=78f11a255749d09025f54d4e2df4fbcb031530e2 git.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/20/14 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=714761 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/78f11a255749d09025f54d4e2df4fbcb031530e2 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=78f11a255749d09025f54d4e2df4fbcb031530e2 git.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/20/14 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=714761 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/78f11a255749d09025f54d4e2df4fbcb031530e2 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory