CVE-2012-2390 (GCVE-0-2012-2390)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-06-13 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:34
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2012-05-23 00:00
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