fkie_cve-2012-2390
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2012-06-13 10:24
Modified
2025-04-11 00:51
Severity ?
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.



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