Resource Management Errors Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,3.4.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005173
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Jun 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Jun 2012

CVE-2012-2390  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 3.4.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. 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.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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