Security Advisory

CVE-2008-2372

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-07-02 16:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 08:58:02

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

The Linux kernel 2.6.24 and 2.6.25 before 2.6.25.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of calls to the get_user_pages function, which lacks a ZERO_PAGE optimization and results in allocation of "useless newly zeroed pages."

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