SUSE CVE-2003-0985

The mremap system call domremap in Linux kernel 2.4.x before 2.4.21, and possibly other versions before 2.4.24, does not properly perform bounds checks, which allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly gain privileges by causing a remapping of a virtual memory area VMA to create...

kernel: mm: avoid wrapping vm_pgoff in mremap() and stack expansions

Integer overflow in the vmatoresize function in mm/mremap.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 allows local users to cause a denial of service BUGON and system crash via a crafted mremap system call that expands a memory mapping...

Debian DSA-441-1 : linux-kernel-2.4.17-mips+mipsel - missing function return value check

Paul Starzetz and Wojciech Purczynski of isec.pl discovered a critical security vulnerability in the memory management code of Linux inside the mremap2 system call. Due to missing function return value check of internal functions a local attacker can gain root privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...