CVE-2011-4097

medium

Description

Integer overflow in the oom_badness function in mm/oom_kill.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1.8 on 64-bit platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or process termination) by using a certain large amount of memory.

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/56c6a8a4aadca809e04276eabe5552935c51387f

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2011-4048

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750399

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/01/2

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1.8

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-05-17

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H