CVE-2012-2390

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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.9 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2012-06-13

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-399

Affected products

• Linux Kernel (Linux)

References

• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c50ac050811d6485616a193eb0f37bfbd191cc89
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/14
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1515-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1535-1
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824345
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c50ac050811d6485616a193eb0f37bfbd191cc89