CVE-2011-2496

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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.9 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2012-06-13

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-189

Affected products

• Linux Kernel (Linux)

References

• http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=982134ba62618c2d69fbbbd166d0a11ee3b7e3d8
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/27/2
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716538
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/982134ba62618c2d69fbbbd166d0a11ee3b7e3d8