fkie_cve-2008-2372
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2008-07-02 16:41
Modified
2024-11-21 00:46
Severity ?
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."
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.24 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.25 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.25.1 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.25.2 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.25.3 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.25.4 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.25.5 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.25.6 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.25.7 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.25.8 |
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