CVE-2012-2390

Severity

49%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

115%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2012-06-13 10:24:00

Last updated 12 years ago

2012-11-06 05:11:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel 3.4

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4 release candidate 1

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4 release candidate 2

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4 release candidate 3

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4 release candidate 4

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4 release candidate 5

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4 release candidate 6

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4 release candidate 7

3.4

Linux Kernel

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c50ac050811d6485616a193eb0f37bfbd191cc89

Patch

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.2

[oss-security] 20120523 Re: CVE Request -- kernel: huge pages: memory leak on mmap failure

USN-1515-1

USN-1535-1

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824345

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c50ac050811d6485616a193eb0f37bfbd191cc89

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