Security Advisory

CVE-2011-2479

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-03-01 11:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 23:00:34

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

The Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not properly create transparent huge pages in response to a MAP_PRIVATE mmap system call on /dev/zero, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted application.

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