CVE-2012-2390
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CVE-2012-2390
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.
Exploit probability
0.5%
Published
June 13, 2012
Required by
Not available
Last source change
April 10, 2026
03 / CONNECTIONS
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04 / EVIDENCE
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CVE-2012-2390
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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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c50ac050811d6485616a193eb0f37bfbd191cc89
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/14
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1515-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1535-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824345
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c50ac050811d6485616a193eb0f37bfbd191cc89