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CVE-2009-0024

Published: Jan 13, 2009

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

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Description

The sys_remap_file_pages function in mm/fremap.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.24.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service or gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to the vm_file structure member, and the mmap_region and do_munmap functions.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.24.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8a459e44ad837018ea5c34a9efe8eb4ad27ded26

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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.24.1

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[oss-security] 20090112 CVE-2009-0024 kernel: local privilege escalation in sys_remap_file_pages

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