CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2011-1474
A locally locally exploitable DOS vulnerability was found in pax-linux versions 2.6.32.33-test79.patch, 2.6.38-test3.patch, and 2.6.37.4-test14.patch. A bad bounds check in arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown triggered by programs doing an mmap after a MAP_GROWSDOWN mmap will create an infinite loop condition without releasing the VM semaphore eventually leading to a system crash.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 28% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-400, CWE-835
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel