CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2011-2498
The Linux kernel from v2.3.36 before v2.6.39 allows local unprivileged users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering creation of PTE pages.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 33% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-772
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- linux:linux_kernel