CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-2496
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-06-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
Description
Integer overflow in the vma_to_resize function in mm/mremap.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG_ON and system crash) via a crafted mremap system call that expands a memory mapping.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.38.8)
• linux linux kernel 2.6.38
• linux linux kernel 2.6.38.1
• linux linux kernel 2.6.38.2
• linux linux kernel 2.6.38.3
• linux linux kernel 2.6.38.4
• linux linux kernel 2.6.38.5
• linux linux kernel 2.6.38.6
• linux linux kernel 2.6.38.7
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39 ftp.osuosl.org
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=982134ba62618c2d69fbbbd166d0a11ee3b7e3d8 git.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/27/2 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716538 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/982134ba62618c2d69fbbbd166d0a11ee3b7e3d8 Exploit, Patch
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39 ftp.osuosl.org
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=982134ba62618c2d69fbbbd166d0a11ee3b7e3d8 git.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/27/2 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716538 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/982134ba62618c2d69fbbbd166d0a11ee3b7e3d8 Exploit, Patch