CVE-2011-1474

A locally locally exploitable DOS vulnerability was found in pax-linux versions 2.6.32.33-test79.patch, 2.6.38-test3.patch, and 2.6.37.4-test14.patch. A bad bounds check in arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown triggered by programs doing an mmap after a MAP_GROWSDOWN mmap will create an infinite loop condition without releasing the VM semaphore eventually leading to a system crash.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2019-12-26

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-400, CWE-835

Affected products

• Linux Kernel (Linux)

References

• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q1/579
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1474