CVE-2012-2390

medium

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.

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c50ac050811d6485616a193eb0f37bfbd191cc89

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2012-2378

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824345

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1535-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1515-1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/14

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.2

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c50ac050811d6485616a193eb0f37bfbd191cc89

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-06-13

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