CVE-2008-2372 (GCVE-0-2008-2372)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-07-02 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:58
VLAI
Summary
The Linux kernel 2.6.24 and 2.6.25 before 2.6.25.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of calls to the get_user_pages function, which lacks a ZERO_PAGE optimization and results in allocation of "useless newly zeroed pages."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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Date Public
2008-06-24 00:00
Show details on NVD website

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