Security Advisories
CVEs affecting projects tracked on Release Alert, from NVD & OSV.
CVE-2011-2479
5.5
MEDIUMCVSS v3
Published
March 1, 2013
CVSS v2
4.9 MEDIUM
Affected
1 project
Assigned by
Red Hat
Severity scale
010
Description
The Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not properly create transparent huge pages in response to a MAP_PRIVATE mmap system call on /dev/zero, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted application.
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