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CVE-2011-2496
Published: Jun 13, 2012
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
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.
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References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716538
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[oss-security] 20110627 Re: CVE request: kernel: mm: avoid wrapping vm_pgoff in mremap() and stack expansions
mailing-list
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http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39
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