CVE-2005-4811

Description

The hugepage code (hugetlb.c) in Linux kernel 2.6, possibly 2.6.12 and 2.6.13, in certain configurations, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by triggering an mmap error before a prefault, which causes an error in the unmap_hugepage_area function.

References

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=112323336017157

http://secunia.com/advisories/22292

http://secunia.com/advisories/22945

http://secunia.com/advisories/25714

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-249.htm

http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1304

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0689.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20362

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=165345

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10976

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2