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.
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 44% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-399
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- 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