Published: 01/03/2013 Updated: 13/02/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 437

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

The Linux kernel prior to 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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Several security issues were fixed in the kernel ...

Multiple kernel flaws have been fixed ...

CWE-399 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/78f11a255749d09025f54d4e2df4fbcb031530e2 http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/20/14 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=714761 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=78f11a255749d09025f54d4e2df4fbcb031530e2 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/1256-1/

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