CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-4097
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-05-17
- 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-190
Description
Integer overflow in the oom_badness function in mm/oom_kill.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1.8 on 64-bit platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or process termination) by using a certain large amount of memory.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 3.1.8)
• redhat enterprise linux 6.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
References
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1.8 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/01/2 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750399 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/56c6a8a4aadca809e04276eabe5552935c51387f Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1.8 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/01/2 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750399 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/56c6a8a4aadca809e04276eabe5552935c51387f Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory