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CVE-2012-2390
Published: Jun 13, 2012
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
USN-1515-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824345
x_refsource_CONFIRM
USN-1535-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
[oss-security] 20120523 Re: CVE Request -- kernel: huge pages: memory leak on mmap failure
mailing-list
x_refsource_MLIST
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.2
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