CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-2390
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-399
Description
Memory leak in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or system crash) via invalid MAP_HUGETLB mmap operations.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 3.4.1)
• linux linux kernel 3.4
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c50ac050811d6485616a193eb0f37bfbd191cc89 git.kernel.org
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.2 www.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/14 www.openwall.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1515-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1535-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824345 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c50ac050811d6485616a193eb0f37bfbd191cc89 Exploit, Patch
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c50ac050811d6485616a193eb0f37bfbd191cc89 git.kernel.org
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.2 www.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/14 www.openwall.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1515-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1535-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824345 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c50ac050811d6485616a193eb0f37bfbd191cc89 Exploit, Patch