4.9 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
kernel-rt is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) attacks. The vulnerability exists through a 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.
git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c50ac050811d6485616a193eb0f37bfbd191cc89
git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c50ac050811d6485616a193eb0f37bfbd191cc89
www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.2
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/14
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1515-1
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1535-1
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:1150
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:1304
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-2390
access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824345
github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c50ac050811d6485616a193eb0f37bfbd191cc89
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1150.html