CVE-2012-2390

Public on 2012-06-13
Modified on 2014-09-14
Description

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
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
4.9
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2012-10-08 10:43 ALAS-2012-133

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.9 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
NVD CVSSv2 4.9 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

References

Red Hat: CVE-2012-2390 Mitre: CVE-2012-2390 FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity